I have several stylesheets. The first one is a stylesheet with some styles that I would like to use as defaults. Depending on several factors, the code being used to generate
yep - the clue is on the name 'cascading' stylesheets. So an inline style will overwrite an style that is defined in the head and a style in the head will overwrite a style in a style sheet. The last style sheet load could overwrite the styles in the previous one loaded. If you use something like firebug or the inspector in chrome it will show you where each style has come from or what it has overidden.