Order in style sheet

I'm learning CSS and came across
this anomaly when I was trying
body and p in a style sheet.

p {
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana;
{

When I do the above, the paragraph
turns out blue.

On the other hand, switching p and body,
p {
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana;
{

produces black text.
What am I not understanding?

Gianni wrote:

I'm learning CSS

Apparently from a poor source, as you are setting paragraph text to bold,
using Verdana, and setting color (to blue at that!) without setting
background. It's just an example you're giving, but a very bad example.

p {
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana;
{

When I do the above, the paragraph
turns out blue.

On the other hand, switching p and body,
p {
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana;
{

produces black text.

Really? I don't see any difference. The stylesheets are identical.

What am I not understanding?

The necessity of posting a URL, to begin with.

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

Gianni wrote:

I'm learning CSS

Apparently from a poor source, as you are setting paragraph text to bold,
using Verdana, and setting color (to blue at that!) without setting
background. It's just an example you're giving, but a very bad example.

p {
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana;
{

When I do the above, the paragraph
turns out blue.

On the other hand, switching p and body,
p {
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
}
body {
font-family: Verdana;
{

produces black text.

Really? I don't see any difference. The stylesheets are identical.

What am I not understanding?

The necessity of posting a URL, to begin with.

I apologize for the question.

There was an error on my part
that caused the problem.