What does !important mean in CSS? Is it available in CSS 2? CSS 3? Where is it supported? All modern browsers?
Using the !important keyword in CSS is a way to prevent other meddlesome programs from taking liberties to interpret your html/css in a way other than what you want. For example when someone goes to print your html/css to paper-and-ink, they often want the background-color property to be white to save ink. So the program overrides your background-color property. This !important keyword ...
$("#elem").css("width", "100px !important"); This does nothing; no width style whatsoever is applied. Is there a jQuery-ish way of applying such a style without having to overwrite cssText (which would mean I’d need to parse it first, etc.)? Edit: I should add that I have a stylesheet with an !important style that I am trying to override with an !important style inline, so using .width() and ...