CSS Inheritance
Automatic inheritance
Inheritance the a fundamental mechanism of CSS by which the computed values of some properties of an element are applied to its' children. This is particularly useful when you want to set a global style to your elements rather than having to set said properties to each and every element in your markup.
Common properties that are automatically inherited are: font, color, text-align, line-height.
Assume the following stylesheet:
#myContainer {
color: red;
padding: 5px;
}
This will apply color: red not only to the <div> element but also to the <h3> and <p> elements. However, due to the nature of padding its value will not be inherited to those elements.
<div id="myContainer">
<h3>Some header</h3>
<p>Some paragraph</p>
</div>
Enforced inheritance
Some properties are not automatically inherited from an element down to its' children. This is because those properties are typically desired to be unique to the element (or selection of elements) to which the property is applied to. Common such properties are margin, padding, background, display, etc.
However, sometimes inheritance is desired anyway. To achieve this, we can apply the inherit value to the property that should be inherited. The inherit value can be applied to any CSS property and any HTML element.
Assume the following stylesheet:
#myContainer {
color: red;
padding: 5px;
}
#myContainer p {
padding: inherit;
}
This will apply color: red to both the <h3> and <p> elements due to the inheritance nature of the color property. However, the <p> element will also inherit the padding value from its' parent because this was specified.
<div id="myContainer">
<h3>Some header</h3>
<p>Some paragraph</p>
</div>
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