There's no value for >
for css specificity.
Both case have 11 value for specificity:
.foo > a { color:green; }/*specificity value is 11*/
.bar a { color:red; }/*specificity value is 11*/
In your case you may use like this to have greater specificty:
.bar .foo > a { color:green; }/*greater specificity value is 21*/
.foo a { color:red; }/*specificity value is 11*/
Ok, I'm going add here how specificity works:
Selector Specificity Specificity in large base
inline-style 1 0 0 0 1000
id selector 0 1 0 0 100
class,pseudo,attribute selector 0 0 1 0 10
type selector and pseudo elements 0 0 0 1 1
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