Short answer: Yup. Unless you override it with a more specific selector and color it'll inherit (hence the Cascade in Cascading Style Sheets)

div matches a div tag, p matches any p tag under a div and * matches anything under the p tag. It's called CASCADING Stylesheets for a reason.

HAHA, fire the developer, there's your feedback. Stylesheets promote a centralized design(reusability, consistency, etc.) They save time, are (most of the time) completely cross-browser...