she's referring to "classitis": http://www.sitekin.com/blogdetail/avoid_CSS_Classitis http://www.sitekin.com/blogdetail/avoid_CSS_Classitis in that example, cl

she's referring to "classitis": http://www.sitekin.com/blogdetail/avoid_CSS_Classitis http://www.sitekin.com/blogdetail/avoid_CSS_Classitis in that example, classitis is when you give a class "item" to every li element, the using .item to style it while the alternate way to do it is using the descendent selector (.parentcontainer li). Nicole Sullivan is saying this can lead to specificity war over time.