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Inheritance in CSS

Hank Greenberg 2246 14-Jun-2013
Hi Developers,

What is meaning of inheritance in CSS terminology? Can you provide any example for better understanding!

Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Updated on 15-Jun-2013
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AVADHESH PATEL

AVADHESH PATEL

15-Jun-2013

Some styles, like font family, text-alignment etc., are automatically inherited by child elements from their parent element (i.e. by an element contained inside another one).

Others are not automatically inherited.

Example

<div style=”font-family:serif; border:1px solid red; padding:10px;”>
This text will be in a serif font.
 <p>
 This text is also in a serif font, because font is inherited by default.
 But the border and padding properties are not inherited from the parent div.
 </p>
</div>

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