Selectors closer to the object we’re targeting within the structure of an HTML document take precedence when two rules conflict. Let’s look at a real-world example to see how this unfolds.

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Selector Type Efficiency There are four main types of selectors in CSS–ID, class, tag and universal. IDs are unique elements denoted by the hash, like our old friend #current.