CSS class priorities

Question

I have a question about the priority of CSS classes after encountering a problem today. The situation is as follows:

I have an unordered list which has a class assoc

Answer 1

A small addition that was not mentioned by cletus' post.
According to the W3C link, the highest priority is the style attribute used in the html element/tag.

E.g. if you have

foo

and

The color will be red because the inline html style has the highest priority, higher than #.