css style inheritance

[chadmichael]

I noticed that in the following style delcaration, not all of the things are inherited.

 body {border: 1px solid green; color:aqua;}

The text coloring is inherited by every child of the containing body element, but not the border styling. THis makes sense of course, logically, but can someone summarize the types of attributes that are inherited and those that aren't?

[boen_robot]

There isn't a rule for defining what properties are inherited and what not. That's defined in the CSS specification itself.Some of the properties that are inherited include font (all), text (all), color, direction, letter-spacing and maybe few more.