Cancel a CSS declaration

Question

Is it possible to have a CSS rule which basically \"undoes\" a prior rule?

An example:

    some text more text ot         


        

Answer 1

Rather than trying to force a selector to inherit font colour from its grandparent, I would suggest that you give the selector and its grandparent a shared declaration for the font colour.

Taking the blockquote example, assuming that body is the grandparent:

body, blockquote em {
       color:[whatever];
}


blockquote {
       color:red;
}

And in the case of the unordered lists, it would be:

body, ul ul {
       color:[whatever];
}


ul {
       color:blue;
}