There is only one color for the web page which is #fff or white so there is no confict for that style.

There is a confict with the border style where one is dashed and the other is solid. In this example, the p.item is more specific than the p item and hence the border is set to dashed.

What about the text size for the text in the p element. The font size is inherited from the element's parent which in this case is the dive element which has a font size define as 2em. Hence our text is of size 2em.