# CSS Specificity

Skill · Web Development

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/css-specificity

CSS Specificity is the algorithm browsers use to determine which CSS rule takes precedence when multiple rules target the same element, based on a weighted scoring of ID selectors, class/attribute selectors, and element selectors. Front-end developers need to understand specificity to debug why certain styles aren't applying and to write predictable, maintainable stylesheets without overusing !important overrides. It's a foundational concept for anyone working seriously with CSS.

Related skills: [Sass](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/sass), [CSS Selector](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/css-selector), [CSS Inheritance](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/css-inheritance)

## Open roles requiring CSS Specificity (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.