Why do I have to specificlaly select .item p and not just .item?

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why do I have to select .item p and not just .item? why does messing with the article itself yield different results if its pretty much selecting the same thing? does it have to do with the inline-block property set to the paragraphs?

  **Your code so far**
/* file: index.html */
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8" />
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
  <title>Cafe Menu</title>
  <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
  <div class="menu">
    <header>
      <h1>CAMPER CAFE</h1>
      <p class="established">Est. 2020</p>
    </header>
    <hr>
    <main>
      <section>
        <h2>Coffee</h2>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="flavor">French Vanilla</p><p class="price">3.00</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="flavor">Caramel Macchiato</p><p class="price">3.75</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="flavor">Pumpkin Spice</p><p class="price">3.50</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="flavor">Hazelnut</p><p class="price">4.00</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="flavor">Mocha</p><p class="price">4.50</p>
        </article>
      </section>
      <section>
        <h2>Desserts</h2>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="dessert">Donut</p><p class="price">1.50</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="dessert">Cherry Pie</p><p class="price">2.75</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="dessert">Cheesecake</p><p class="price">3.00</p>
        </article>
        <article class="item">
          <p class="dessert">Cinnamon Roll</p><p class="price">2.50</p>
        </article>
      </section>
    </main>
    <hr>
    <footer>
      <p>
        <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org" target="_blank">Visit our website</a>
      </p>
      <p>123 Free Code Camp Drive</p>
    </footer>
  </div>
</body>
<html>
/* file: styles.css */
body {
background-image: url(https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-cafe/beans.jpg);
font-family: sans-serif;
padding: 20px;
}

h1 {
font-size: 40px;
}

h2 {
font-size: 30px;
}

.established {
font-style: italic;
}

h1, h2, p {
text-align: center;
}

.menu {
width: 80%;
background-color: burlywood;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
padding: 20px;
max-width: 500px;
}

hr {
height: 2px;
background-color: brown;
border-color: brown;
}

h1, h2 {
font-family: Impact, serif;
}

.item p {
display: inline-block;

}
.item {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;


}

.flavor, .dessert {
text-align: left;
width: 75%;
}

.price {
text-align: right;
width: 25%
}
  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.61 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Step 74

Link to the challenge:

The p element has a default top and bottom margins equal to 1em. Open developer tools to see the default margins of various html elements.

thank you very much!

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