On 28/12/08 22:21, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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.

Sorry. Looks like I should have been citing CSS1:

http://dbaron.org/css/user/cascade#origin

Another problem with using !important is you end up in arms race with 
people styling widgets who will then use !important themselves.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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