Extreme specificity overriding a CSS ID with 256 chained Classes

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The other day Chris Coyier created a test case demonstrating that chaining together 256 classes will give it greater specificity than an id, in theory it shouldn’t. But in IE, Mozilla and WebKit browsers it does, Opera on the other hand upholds the specificity. Not familiar with CSS specificity then take a look at Estelle Weyl’s hilariously informative specifishity chart .

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