In SharePoint when we write our own css classes sometimes we
have to override some styles in corev4.css. Specificity is one of the
techniques we use in style overriding. Also it would help to keep a clean
stylesheet. Found some articles regarding specificity. One of them talks about
calculating css selector value. Take a look.
references :
http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Specificity
references :
http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Specificity