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  • Like I said in my answer. ^^ However it does make a difference if you have more of the same type (element, class, id). But that is pretty obvious if 5things say red and 3 say blue well Ima go red. Commented May 11, 2010 at 8:47
  • The wording around specificity probably hasn’t changed much between CSS2 and CSS2.1, but you really should be pointing to the CSS2.1 spec in future discussions as it completely supercedes CSS2 which was in general broken at the point of release. Commented Aug 16, 2012 at 8:49