On 2008/12/28 22:16 (GMT) Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis composed:

> On 28/12/08 21:41, Tim Arnold wrote:

>> Making styles either more specific, or adding the "!important" modifier will
>> also help in many of these situations

> !important might appear to help, but it has the regrettable side effect 
> of overriding user stylesheets:

> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules

Read 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence, 2nd clause again. If it wasn't for
!important, user stylesheets would be virtually useless.
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