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Chapter 2. CSS FUNDAMENTALS FOR ADVANCED... > Origins of a style sheet and the CSS...

2.1. Origins of a style sheet and the CSS cascade

Like an army general, your success or failure as a CSS developer will depend on your ability to consider many variables at once. Perhaps the most underappreciated variable in professional front-end web development is the presence of other style sheets in addition to your own. These additional style sheets are applied to your markup before your style sheet has a chance to affect it, so it behooves you to be aware of how these other style sheets can help or hinder your own work.




  

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