who can tell me about !important?

[Sam]

I know this order and i don’t know how to use this !important?
Today i write a css and find when i use css in my web which is to learn mandarin in shanghai and the page just use the page.css don’t use my yz.css. so i search then find !important,but i don’t know how to use,if you know,
tell me please.
Many THX!

[CodeGraphics]

Don’t use !important.
But if you must use it, !important is used when you don’t want the style you applied to an element to be altered by another styling somewhere in your css.

[Paulie_D]

Not exactly correct.

The `!important` option is used to make sure that the style to which you apply it is NOT overridden by styling elsewhere further down your stylesheet.

It can also be used to make sure the styling is applied to overcome specificity issues.

Properly managed CSS stylesheets will not normally require the use of this option

[CrocoDillon]

> It can also be used to make sure the styling is applied to overcome specificity issues.

If you need !important to make it work and you don’t know why, it’s probably this. Eventually it will be very hard to override rules and you end up using !important on everything. Don’t do that :P Understand how selector specificity works and only use !important when changing that property might break something and you know for sure you won’t ever need to override it, and only then even if you really need it.

[Sam]

now i see and thank you very much!

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