Can a CSS class inherit one or more other classes?

Question

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Answer 1

In specific circumstances you can do a "soft" inheritance:

.composite
{
display:inherit;
background:inherit;
}

.something { display:inline }
.else      { background:red }

This only works if you are adding the .composite class to a child element. It is "soft" inheritance because any values not specified in .composite are not inherited obviously. Keep in mind it would still be less characters to simply write "inline" and "red" instead of "inherit".

Here is a list of properties and whether or not they do this automatically: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html