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Chapter 1. Investigating the Scene of the Crime > CSS Foundations
CSS Foundations
To really troubleshoot CSS, we need to understand a few foundational concepts—specifically, document hierarchy and element relationships, inheritance, the cascade, and specificity.
Document tree, hierarchy, and element ancestry
The best way to understand the document tree, document hierarchy, and the relationships between elements is to see them. So let’s start with the code:
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