What you're looking for is
  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity
You can see that in 2.1 they included the 'style' attribute and give it 
a specificity of 1000 (highest)

Alex Dunae wrote:
> Hello all - I'm writing a CSS parser and have come up against a bit of 
> confusion regarding CSS specificity.
>
> In my style sheet I have
>
> #head a { color: white; }
>
>
> In my HTML document I have
>
> <div id="head"><a href="#" style="color: red;">...</a></div>
>
>
> Firefox and IE both render the link as red but the CSS spec seems to say 
> that it should be white.
>
> Per http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#cascading-order
> the rule in my stylesheet should have a specificity of 101 while the 
> inline attribute should have a lower specificity, 100.
>
> Am I reading this incorrectly or is this just browsers ignoring part of 
> the spec.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex
>
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