How to Draw a Flowchart for CSS Hierarchy
As CSS (cascading style sheets) takes the place of repetitive HTML tags in modern website programming, it can help to draw up a flowchart of what the browser prioritizes are in order to figure out what your styles will actually look like at load time. You can do this by figuring out where you have placed tags or omitted tags, taking hardware into account and knowing about the priorities that the software assigns.
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Draw a box at the bottom of your piece of paper. This is your default browser setting. If no further style is defined, the element will have the attributes of the default.
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Draw a box above that. This is your external style sheet (not included within the
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In a third box above your external CSS is an internal style sheet, something programmed inside of the opening HTML tags. This will trump an external style attribute.
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Draw a fourth box at the top. This is your specific HTML tags and delimiters, which will be prioritized over any outside values. So, the hand-coded style will always be recognized.
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Make drawings linked into this hierarchy representing add-on files and other "pieces," either software or hardware, to show how the CSS and HTML codes can be most quickly added to or modified by another user. This guide will be helpful if you ever need to go in and just change one value.
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