CSS Inheritance
CSS inheritance is about what happens if no value is specified for a property on an element.
If no value is specified for a property, the value can either be inherited from the parent element, or be set to its initial (default) value.
For CSS inheritance, properties are categorized in two types:
- inherited properties
- non-inherited properties
Inherited Properties
Inherited properties are, by default, set to the computed value of the parent element.
Properties related to text, such as color, font-family, font-size, line-height, and text-align, are typically inherited. This ensures consistent text styling throughout a document.
In the following example, the text inside the element will appear in 20px and in blue, since the element inherits the ) element. If there is not set a value for a non-inherited property, the value is set to the initial (default) value of that property. Properties related to the box model or layout, like In the following example, the element, inside the element, will not have an additional border (since the initial value of The In the following example, the element, inside the element, will have an additional border, since we have used the color and the font-size value from the parent (Example
<style>
p {
color: blue;
font-size: 20px;
}
</style>
<body>
<p>This
is a paragraph with some <strong>important</strong> text.</p>
</body>
Non-inherited Properties
border, background, margin, padding, width, and height, are typically not inherited. border-style is none).Example
<style>
p {
border: 1px solid red;
}
</style>
<body>
<p>This
is a paragraph with some <strong>important</strong> text.</p>
</body>
The inherit Keyword
inherit keyword is used to explicitly specify inheritance. It works on both inherited and non-inherited properties.inherit keyword to explicitly specify that the border value should be inherit.Example
<style>
p {
border: 1px solid red;
}
strong {
border: inherit;
}
</style>
<body>
<p>This
is a paragraph with some <strong>strong</strong> text.</p>
</body>
