Then I applied both character styles in each of the directly formatted areas of Then I added direct formatting of Italics to the Bold paragraph and of Bold to the Italics paragraph (parts). I formatted two paragraphs of text with the two paragraph styles. I then created two character styles, a red one based on Default Paragraph Font and a Blue one based on Underlying Properties. I created two paragraph styles, one with boldĪnd one with Italics. I am not seeing any difference between the two in Word 2010. This can help you in quickly figuring out solutions to common layout related problems.I guess I find this fascinating. DevTools provide you easy access to all the properties that an element inherits from its ancestors. It greatly simplifies the process of adding styles to web pages and therefore is an excellent feature of CSS.ĬSS also allows you to use the inherit keyword to force inheritance on properties that are not inherited by default. To summarize what I’ve discussed: inheritance allows you to avoid writing duplicated CSS rules to apply the same set of properties to all the descendants of an element. You can also view info on an individual CSS property in the spec, or in any comprehensive CSS reference, and it will usually tell you if that property is inherited by default. Which CSS properties are inherited? (Question on Stack Overflow).Here are a few sources for inherited property lists: There are also a number of speech-related CSS properties that are inherited and that are not included in the list above. There doesn’t seem to be a single definitive source that lists all CSS properties that inherit, but below is a list that’s probably correct, based on a few sources: List of CSS Properties that are Inherited Properties that were inheritable but were overridden are displayed with strike-through text. Neither do all the inheritable properties make it to the end of the inheritance chain without being overridden by another CSS rule somewhere else.ĭevTools gives you different visual cues to easily distinguish between all such properties, which you can see in the screenshot below, taken from SitePoint’s CSS:Īny properties that are not inheritable by the selected element are dimmed. As already mentioned, not all properties of a parent element are inheritable. See the Pen CSS Inheritance and Shorthand by SitePoint ( on CodePen.ĭevTools can be used to view properties that an element inherits from its parent or from another element up the DOM tree. Therefore, in this case, if you want the parent font shorthand to be inherited while still making sure that the paragraph remains bold, you will have to use the longhand font-weight property. The font-style value will actually be reset to its initial value of normal. Here, the paragraph text won’t inherit the value of font-style from its container. This can be achieved by setting the value of that property to inherit for the child element. In some cases, a specific property may not be inheritable but you might still want it to be inherited from the parent element. However, you would often prefer if the color of text or the font used for different child elements of a container was the same. For example, in addition to the examples discussed in the previous section, you probably don’t want all the children of an element to inherit the padding value of their parent. Generally speaking, whether or not to make a property inheritable comes down to common sense.
See the Pen How Borders Would Work if they Inherited by Default by SitePoint ( on CodePen. The following CodePen example demonstrates how this sort of thing would look using a CSS keyword value that I’ll discuss in the next section: Similarly, if children inherited the background-image property from their parents, the result would be messy. In fact, if all properties were inherited, the effect would be similar to having no inheritance at all and you would have to write a lot of CSS to override this behavior.Īs an example, if the border property was inheritable, setting a border on a single element would cause the same border to appear on all its child elements. The same is true in CSS not every CSS property is inherited by default by child elements. In real life, not all attributes of parents are passed on to their children.
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