Test your skills: The Cascade
The aim of this task is to help you check your understanding of the universal property values for controlling inheritance that we looked at in the lesson on The Cascade and Inheritance.
Note: You can try out solutions in the interactive editors below, however, it may be helpful to download the code and use an online tool such as CodePen, jsFiddle, or Glitch to work on the tasks.
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Task One
In this task, you need to use one of the special values we looked at in the Controlling inheritance section to write a declaration in a new rule that will reset the background color back to white, without using an actual color value.
In the example below see if you can match the image above.
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Assessment or further help
You can practice these examples in the Interactive Editors mentioned above.
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