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Working with Inheritance

  

<!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>Inheritance</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
body {
    font: 14px sans-serif;
    color: darkslateblue;
    border: 5px dashed darkslateblue;
    margin: 10px;
    padding: 10px;
    text-align: center;
}
        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
            Some properties are inherited, such as the color, font,
            and text properties.  Other properties, such as border, margin,
            and padding, are not inherited.
        </p>
    </body>
</html>








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