You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones

I think this is good advice from Silvestar Bistrović:

An enabling selector is what I call a selector that does a job without disabling the particular rule.

The classic example is applying margin to everything, only to have to remove …

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https://www.silvestar.codes/articles/you-want-a-single-enabling-selector-not-the-one-that-disables-the-rule-of-the-previous-one/

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