HTML/CSS/Style Basics/important
!important rules are used to override specificity
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head> <title>Specificity, !important</title> <style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
body {
font: 14px sans-serif;
} span#precedence {
background: lightyellow;
} span {
background: orange !important;
}
</style> </head> <body>
The !important syntax causes a selector to have greater precedence than those without it.
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</html>
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!important syntax has greater precedence than the (x)HTML style attribute
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head> <title>Specificity, !important</title> <style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
body {
font: 14px sans-serif;
} span#precedence {
background: lightyellow;
} span {
background: orange !important;
}
</style> </head> <body>
It also has greater precedence than the (x)HTML style attribute.
</body>
</html>
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