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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 ...
2 Strictly speaking you shouldn't need to use !important if you've structured your CSS well and don't have too many degrees of specificity. The most appropriate time to use !important is when you have one exceptional style that you want to style outside of your site's normal cascade.
So when using important, ideally this should only ever be used, when really really needed. So to override the declaration, make the style more specific, but also with an override.
$("#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 ...
Gmail uses several signals to decide which messages to automatically mark as important, including: Whom you email, and how often you email them Which emails you open Which emails you reply to Keywords that are in emails you usually read Which emails you star, archive, or delete To see why an email was marked as important, hover over the importance marker .
Is there a CSS keyword which overrides !important at one higher level or is there some feature like this planned in any newer CSS spec? The strongest style in CSS I can think of is an inline style ...