--- title: How CSS Works Behind The Scene - Cascade & Specificity description: Cascade is a process of combining different stylesheets and resolving conflicts between different CSS rules and declarations. It works when more than one rule... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-css-works-behind-the-scene---cascade-specificity-m3stlq7ls twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How CSS Works Behind The Scene - Cascade & Specificity | daily.dev og:description: Cascade is a process of combining different stylesheets and resolving conflicts between different CSS rules and declarations. It works when more than one rule... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-css-works-behind-the-scene---cascade-specificity-m3stlq7ls og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/m3StLQ7Ls.png og:image:alt: How CSS Works Behind The Scene - Cascade & Specificity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How CSS Works Behind The Scene - Cascade & Specificity **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 5 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cascade is a process of combining different stylesheets and resolving conflicts between different CSS rules and declarations. It works when more than one rule applies to a certain element. 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