The Kiermans » !important http://www.thekiermans.co.uk The personal blog of Darren Kierman (of Kierweb) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:19:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 CSS – Its !important http://www.thekiermans.co.uk/css-its-important/ http://www.thekiermans.co.uk/css-its-important/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:25:39 +0000 darren http://www.thekiermans.co.uk/?p=100 CSS styling will always cascade – meaning if you have more than one declaration of the same style – the last one it finds will always be used.

You can override this functionality by using the !important function. A CSS rule which has !important on the end will always be applied no matter where that rule appears in the CSS document.

For example … the following CSS rule will always make sure paragraph text is always red, regardless if the paragraph text colour is changed (to blue) later on in the CSS document.

p { color: #ff0000 !important; }
…
p { color: #0000ff; }

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