Media queries working only partially - css

Question

Basically I'm playing around with these and I noticed that some of the properties do change as I want. Some (text-transform and font-size) have no effect (they work outside of the media query but not in). The p and #icon part work flawlessly, as well as color and font-family for .title, so I have zero clue as to why this happens.
Relevant code snippets:
#media only screen and (max-width: 1000px) {
p {
background-color: blue;
}
#icon {
display: none;
}
.title {
color: red;
text-transform: lowercase;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 10px;
}
}
And for the regular screen size I have
.title {
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 35px;
font-weight: 300;
}
And in the HTML part
<h1 class="title" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0px;">Jane Doette</h1>

Answer 1

For rules where the selectors are equally specific, the last one takes precedence.
Make the rule inside the media query more specific, for example changing .title to h1.title, or place the rules for regular screen size before the media query.

Answer 2

My guess is that your media query is placed before the non-media query style. If so, put your media query after: JS Fiddle - Media Query Last
.title {
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 35px;
font-weight: 300;
}
#media only screen and (max-width: 500px) {
p {
background-color: blue;
}
#icon {
display: none;
}
.title {
color: red;
text-transform: lowercase;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 10px;
}
}
Otherwise, if the media query is first, the last styles in the style sheet will take precedent: JS Fiddle - Media Query First