{"id":2480,"date":"2024-05-31T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:22:00","slug":"nesting-overriding-properties-in-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/nesting-overriding-properties-in-css\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesting\/Overriding Properties in CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some things you just can&#8217;t undo in CSS. <\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"HTML, XML\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"xml\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-xml\"><span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-attr\">style<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"display: none;\"<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\n  <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-attr\">style<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"display: block;\"<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\n    Still hidden.\n  <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span>&gt;<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">HTML, XML<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">xml<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p>But, perhaps unintuitively, that <em>does<\/em> work with <code>visibility<\/code>. <\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-2\" data-shcb-language-name=\"HTML, XML\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"xml\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-xml\"><span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-attr\">style<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"visibility: hidden;\"<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\n  <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-attr\">style<\/span>=<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"visibility: visible;\"<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\n    Visible\n  <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\n<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">div<\/span>&gt;<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-2\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">HTML, XML<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">xml<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennadel.com\/blog\/4659-nesting-the-pointer-events-property-in-css.htm\">Ben Nadel makes the point<\/a> that <code>pointer-events<\/code> is another one of those properties that allows you to &#8220;undo&#8221; what a parent has set. 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