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A specific selector wins, the last one wins

  
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>Specificity</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body {
    font: 14px sans-serif;
}
span#specific {
    background: pink;
}
span {
    background: red;
}
span {
    background: yellow;
}
</style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
            <span id='specific'>A specific selector wins</span>
            <span>more general one</span>.
        </p>
        <p>
            <span>the last one wins</span>.
        </p>
    </body>
</html>








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