Order by CSS Specificity

Question

My main goal is to try to reorder a CSS style block based on specificity. I previously had helped from SO and I managed to produce this function. See gist.

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Answer 1

The problem should go away if you serialize

html, body, body div{ 
    background: transparent; 
} 

as separate rules, as if they were written in the following manner:

html{ 
    background: transparent; 
} 
body{ 
    background: transparent; 
} 
body div{ 
    background: transparent; 
} 

The semantics is a bit confusing, but basically you are judging an entire declaration based on independent selectors that have been combined into the same rule set.

Re your update: specificity is not affected by selector order, i.e. the rules below have the same specificity. The last rule will take precedense rendering in blue, unless you re-arrange the rules rendering in red:

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