What is the purpose of using font: inherit?

Question

I just wanted to know why font: inherit; is used in Cascading Style Sheets.

Answer 1

The inherit is used to get the properties from the parent element. In other words, inherit the properties of parent element.

The default property is inherit, it means, say you have div and a p.

    
Hello World!

Now you give a style:

div {font-famlily: Tahoma;}
p {font-family: inherit;}

That font-family is inherited to the p from its parent element div.