title: 'How a Single CSS Bug Taught Me Everything About Specificity' date: '2025-10-24' author: 'Ronnie Nyamhute' description: "The battle was arduous. A persistent bug was crippling our new website, but the fight to fix it revealed a fundamental lesson in web development."
The Calm Before the Storm
It started, as most critical errors do, with something that seemed simple. Our call-to-action buttons, the most important links on the page, were rendering without text. Not always, just sometimes. In the most complex components, they would appear as blank, colored rectangles.
My first assumption was a simple CSS conflict. A quick override should have fixed it. It didn't. This was the beginning of the button war.