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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Fundamental Concepts Inheritance

Posted by Kathryn Notson
Kathryn Notson
25,941 Points

CSS Basics: Inheritance

When I gave my .intro {color: initial;} it didn't change the introduction text color to the initial "black" color. It remained #878787 gray color. However, if I gave my .intro {color: black;} then the introduction's text color turned black.

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Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points
Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points

Hi Kathryn! I just checked myself, and if I set in the media query, the color to initial, when I save and hit refresh text change from #878787 to black as soon as I hit the 768 pixel mark... Did you save and refresh the page when you set color to initial?

Kathryn Notson
Kathryn Notson
25,941 Points

Yes, I did save & refresh the page.

The exercise merely deleted the color properties as follows: h1 {color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);} & .title {color: white;}, added .main-header {color: white;}. But, when adding color property to .intro {color: black;} or .intro {color: initial;}, then the browser is supposed to ignore the inheritance from the body {color: #878787;}. However, the .intro text remains gray colored & doesn't turn black when I use .intro {color: initial;}. I checked it by shrinking/enlarging the viewpoint window & the .intro text remained gray. The .intro text didn't turn black as it was supposed to do. The instructor didn't place a color property in the @media query in this lesson. I even checked the word spelling.

Maybe I missed something in an earlier lesson in this module.

Kathryn Notson
Kathryn Notson
25,941 Points

Well, I discovered that IE 11 doesn't render .intro {color: initial;} to black. The intro text stays the gray color. IE 11 accepts .intro {color: black;}, but not .intro {color: initial;}. However, Google Chrome accepts .intro {color: black;} or .intro {color: initial;}.

Browsers are picky. Wish they were all standardized.