When you apply a colour to your page's body via CSS:
body
{
color: #FFA;
}
The colour is inherited by all sorts of tags such as <i>, <b>, <span>, etc.
However it isn't inherited by <a> tags.
Why is this?
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because links have they different default color. – Kamil Sep 26 '14 at 18:22
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CSS selector for link tag has higher precedence than inherited from - this depends on CSS implementation by a particular browser. See http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/ on selector precedence rules. – lubosdz Sep 26 '14 at 18:26
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Thank you this makes sense, my bad I didn't see the duplicate when posting. – saricden Sep 26 '14 at 19:05