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CSS custom properties and inheritance

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CSS custom properties and inheritance

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- Lets take a closer look at how inheritance works with custom properties. It's just like other aspects of CSS inheritance. However, for whatever reason I find that people are surprised by the way custom properties behave in terms of inheritance. So let's look at an example in a little bit more detail and in isolation. So its starting here we have some HTML. We have an H1. We have a paragraph and then we have an article. Inside of that article we have an H2 and another paragraph. And those two paragraphs are what we are going to focus on a lot of the time here. Down in my CSS, as you'll see, I have my root declaration and I've set up a variable called the color and the color is set to red. And then I have just some empty declarations right now for the article and the paragraph. So the first thing that I want to do is I want to declare that my article will have a color of red. In other words, the text color is…

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