HTML and CSS Reference
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4. Using Your Tools
If you use tools like Firebug or Safari's Web Inspector, you can see how a
given cascade works, which selectors have higher specificity and how
inheritance is working on a particular element.
For example, here below is
Firebug
in action, inspecting an element on the
page. You can see that some properties are overridden (i.e. crossed out) by
other more specific rules:
Firebug in action, informing you how specificity is working.
