Debugging conflicting CSS styles in a research web app using Bootstrap 5
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but Currently developing a web application for visualizing research data, and I've run into a CSS specificity issue that's proving tricky to debug. Despite using Bootstrap 5, certain styles don’t appear as expected. For example, I have a navigation bar that should be styled differently on larger screens, but it's not responding to my media queries as intended. Here's a snippet of my CSS: ```css @media (min-width: 992px) { .navbar { background-color: #343a40; color: white; } } ``` However, the background color reverts to the default Bootstrap style. I’ve tried using `!important` to enforce my styles, but that feels like a last resort. My HTML structure looks like this: ```html <nav class="navbar"> <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Research Lab</a> <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNav" aria-controls="navbarNav" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation"> <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> </button> <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNav"> <ul class="navbar-nav"> <li class="nav-item active"> <a class="nav-link" href="#">Home</a> </li> <li class="nav-item"> <a class="nav-link" href="#">About</a> </li> </ul> </div> </nav> ``` I attempted to inspect the elements in the browser’s developer tools, and it shows that another style is overriding my background-color property. The specificity conflict is likely due to Bootstrap’s inherent styles. I've also considered nesting my CSS selectors more specifically, but I'm concerned about future maintainability and performance. To further debug, I even isolated the navigation bar from the rest of the styles in an empty HTML file, and it worked perfectly, indicating that there might be global styles interfering. My next thought was to check for other CSS libraries that might conflict with Bootstrap, but I'm unsure how to approach resolving this without introducing more complexity. Can anyone suggest a cleaner way to handle this CSS specificity issue or best practices for debugging Bootstrap styles in a research-oriented web application? I'm on Windows 10 using the latest version of Css. Has anyone dealt with something similar?