This is the nature of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS is read from top to bottom, so the color property of all span elements is set as blue inside the HTML style tags.
If you add an id selector which sets the background-color as lightpink, this overrides the same property which was previously set in the span selector, for this specific id selector only (i.e. for this particular span element). All other span elements will still have the background-color property set to lime (unless overridden separately).
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ok but how is the width is not affected?
Hey yukta!
Can you please copy/paste your code here so its easier for others to help you
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Sorry, my initial explanation wasn’t the clearest, so I have edited it.
However, I actually don’t know why that given answer is ‘correct’ as the width property should be applied to that span element.
Hey!
span is an inline element and inline elements do not respect the width property. They are as big as the content in it (Imagine an element’s width set to max-content)
You can only apply width to it if you set the display property of the span element to either block or inline-block.
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Every day is a learning day, thanks @staranbeer!
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okay got it thanks! 
@igorgetmeabrain @yukawa.x
Here’s a great video if you guys want to learn more about it.
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