css21/cascade/html-precedence-001.xht

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>CSS Test: Element selector precedence</title>
        <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#preshint" />
        <link rel="match" href="../reference/filler-text-below-green.xht"/>
        <meta name="flags" content="" />
        <meta name="assert" content="The 'color' attribute has a specificity equal to 0 which be overridden by subsequent style sheet rules." />
        <style type="text/css">
            span
            {
                color: green;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Test passes if the "Filler Text" below is green.</p>
        <div>
            <font color="red">
                <span>Filler Text</span>
            </font>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>