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class style overwrites the wildcard style

 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
    <head>
        <title> Property Inheritance </title>
        <style type='text/css'>
      * {
          font-family: sans-serif;
      }
      div {
          font-family: "Times New Roman";
      }
        </style>
    </head>
  <body>
      This font is sans-serif.
      <div>
          This font is Times New Roman.
      </div>
  </body>
</html>








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