<ul><li>Specificity is a concept in CSS that determines which rule takes precedence when there are conflicting styles for the same element.</li><li>CSS uses a scoring system where the more specific a selector is, the higher its score and the rule with the higher score wins.</li><li>The specificity hierarchy in CSS is: inline styles > IDs > classes/attributes > elements.</li><li>In case of a tie, the rule that appears later in the CSS file wins, and the !important declaration overrides almost every other rule.</li></ul>

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