[captainmuon]

Huh, I always thought the cascade referred to the fact that certain properties apply to child elements (like font size) and others don't (like borders). There are cascading and non-cascading properties. What is described here I would call the specifity (which is actually only one part of it).

The funny thing is that I even implemented a CSS parser and evaluator without knowing the official terms.

[seumars]

I had the same thought. Property inheritance could be a more specific description though?