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Lucan Greg
484 PointsHow we lost -4px margin?
why we lost 4 px of negative margin? Did we overwrite value -4px, because first value and later on we add the same property with a margin 4% its last in the document so it will take values from there instead of the first column we targeted?
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Steven Parker
231,248 PointsYou're right that the cascade rules say a later setting will override a previous one, but in this case there's a more important rule involved. That other rule says that something selected with a higher specificity will override anything with a lower specificity regardless of order.
Adding the "first-child" pseudo to the selector gives it a higher specificity than the more generic selector.