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Focus styles aren't equivalent to hover styles
Focus styles can't be equal to hover styles because in this case users have to understand a focus state for every element.
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Does position: absolute of the child element affect the parent?
The element with position: absolute breaks out from the document flow.
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Who is your favorite author about CSS?
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The inherit keyword doesn't inherit a value from a property if it's used for CSS variables
--bg-color: inherit get the red value from --bg-color of the parent and move to background-color of the p element.
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October 2024

The non-obvious secret of CSS custom properties for the shorthand properties
In the case of using CSS Custom Properties for the shorthand properties, all values must be defined.
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What happens when using an invalid CSS Custom Property?
A computed value depends on the property type when using invalid custom properties.
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Which is specificity of :is() and :where() pseudo-class functions?
A specificity weight value of :is() equals the most specific selector from a selector list and :where() is 0000 always.
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