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A Complete Guide to Flexbox

Inherit, initial and unset

Intro

  • Inherit is probably the easiest to understand, what it basically says is, ‘I will inherit this value from my parent’.
  • Initial says, ‘hey just take the browser default for this value’.
  • Unset says, ‘if there is a parent with a matching value, then I will act as inherit, otherwise I will act as initial’.

initial-diagram H1 is looking to inherit a color value, which it finds in the body element.

initial-diagram-inherit H1 is told to use its initial value, so it skips over the body element and goes to its roots.

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