Lea Verou 5/21/2021

82% of developers get this 3 line CSS quiz wrong

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This article explores a CSS quiz where 82% of developers incorrectly predicted the outcome of using `--accent-color: revert;` on a custom property. It explains how the `revert` keyword works by canceling author styles and reverting to user or UA stylesheet values, and why inheritance causes the property to resolve to `skyblue` instead of the fallback `orange`.

82% of developers get this 3 line CSS quiz wrong

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