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The Cascade, Specificity, and
Inheritance
Internet Explorer Support for inherit
Internet Explorer 7 and earlier versions don??™t support the value inherit for any
properties other than direction (p. 343) and visibility (p. 273).
The Ultimate CSS Reference 136
Normally, in the absence of any applicable declaration, the color property is
inherited. However, in the case of anchor elements, the color property is commonly
set to blue in the user agent style sheet. If you wanted to reinforce the importance
of the inherited value, you could use the value inherit in an author or user style
sheet, overwriting the user agent style sheet declaration. In the following example,
we set the foreground color of the p element to #000, or black, and specify that any
child anchor elements should inherit the value of the foreground color from their
parent element:
p {
color: #000;
}
p a:link {
color: inherit;
}
When you??™re using shorthand notation such as background, you can??™t mix inherit
with other values.


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