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The last stylesheet listed in the Head element will have precedence. Within the stylesheet, the element furthest down will have precedence. For that reason one must take care about such elements as anchors. The Active declaration should be beneath the Hover, which should be beneath all others. Care must be taken with multiple stylesheets and the use of shorthand properties, also

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There is priority in CSS, hence the word Cascading. The lowest level of precedence is the browser default styles. These are the styles that browser define by default to render the HTML elements. Next comes the external stylesheets. The precedence is the last external stylesheet has precedence over the external stylesheet listed before it. Internal styles take a higher precedence over external stylesheets. These styles are listed inside the <head> element. Inline styles take precedence over internal styles and finally. The !important rule takes precedence over all rules including those included inline. Finally, user-defined styles take precedence over all CSS rules including rules with the !important rule.

So the order of priority looks like this (with 1 being the highest priority and 6 being the lowest priority).

1. User-defined styles

2. !important rule

3. Inline styles

4. Embedded styles

5. External styles

6. Browser default styles

The other issue with priority is specificity. The more specific the rule, the higher precedence it will take. If the specificity is equal, then the rule declared last takes priority.

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There is no priority in Cascading Style sheet. Whatever executes first will be run and shown on the page.

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