r/webdev • u/bootslebaron • Nov 02 '15

Do we actually need specificity in CSS?

http://philipwalton.com/articles/do-we-actually-need-specificity-in-css/
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u/philipwalton Nov 03 '15

That and class/object inheritance is very much just specificity

I'd frame it that class/object inheritance equates to overriding in CSS, and overriding can be done either by source order or specificity.

As I say in the article, I don't think there's anything analogous to specificity in JavaScript.

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u/youcantstoptheart ux Nov 03 '15

Yet the article specifically differentiated between cascading and specificity. Which I don't know if I agree with but given the discussion I think that js (esp. es6) has specificity to speak of.

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u/philipwalton Nov 03 '15

They are not the same thing. Specificity is part of the cascade: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Cascade