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CSS 👉🏼 What is the specificity of HTML elements with the style attribute?

Hello! I'm deep diving into how specificity is added to CSS selectors, and I became curious about this.

Given the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Important and style attribute</title>
  <style>
    .red {
      background-color: red !important;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div style="background-color: blue !important" class="red">I'm important!</div>
</body>

</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Important and style attribute</title>
  <style>
    .red {
      background-color: red !important;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div style="background-color: blue !important" class="red">I'm important!</div>
</body>

</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Important and style attribute</title>
  <style>
    .red {
      background-color: red !important;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div style="background-color: blue !important" class="red">I'm important!</div>
</body>

</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Important and style attribute</title>
  <style>
    .red {
      background-color: red !important;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <div style="background-color: blue !important" class="red">I'm important!</div>
</body>

</html>

The

background-color

background-color

background-color

background-color of the

<div>

<div>

<div>

<div> will be blue. But what is the criteria for this? Do HTML elements with the

style

style

attribute have a special criteria for them? Because when it comes to specificity, the class is more specific than the element (although it seems like that's not the rule that applies here)

CSS 👉🏼 What is the specificity of HTML elements with the style attribute?

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