Overriding the style of a child styled with the * modifier is not impossible

[Rutabadev]

The documentation states that overriding a style with a utility directly on the child itself won’t work due to the specificity of the generated child selector (https://tailwindcss.com/docs/hover-focus-and-other-states#styling-direct-children).

However it seems that it is only dependend on the cascade because the * selector does not add specificity.

I could verify this by pasting the HTML and CSS utilities from this https://play.tailwindcss.com/j6Cr1VWSam to a codepen, then move this class to the top of the CSS file :

.\*\:size-14 > *{
  width: 3.5rem;
  height: 3.5rem
}

Resolving the childVariant plugin before the utilities would fix this.

One could argue that it is currently nice to be forced to mark the overriden child with important!, to be explicit about the fact that a rule was already defined on the parent.