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<title>CSS cascading: Inherit the computed value</title>
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/cascade.html#value-def-inherit">
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/changes.html#s.6.2.1">
<meta name="assert" content="Each property may also have a cascaded value of 'inherit', which means that, for a given element, the property takes as specified value the computed value of the element's parent.">
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<link rel="author" title="Bert Bos" href="mailto:[email protected]">
<style>
p {font-size: larger; border: medium solid}
span {font-size: inherit}
em {color: red; border: inherit}
</style>
<p>This line is all <span>in one font</span> size
<em></em> and there is no red.
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