Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > !important is our last option (short of using inline-styles with > !important on top), and overusing it may lead to stylesheets full of > !important just to make them work. Such stylesheets are not easy to > maintain at a later date.
Approving Georg's objections, the desperate situation I can remember where I used !important was to (partly) fix a parsing bug in IE when pseudo-elements met pseudo-classes. But this only led to other bugs (i.e. if a hover rule was added). Does anyone have examples where !important is a good choice? Ingo <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <style type="text/css"> a:link, a:visited { color: blue; display: block; } #myID a { color: fuchsia; } #myID a:first-letter { font-size: 2em; /* to indicate, the selector does work, but the specificity is broken */ color: red; /* !important, or we get a blue first letter in IE, neither fuchsia nor red */ } </style> </head> <body> <p id="myID"><a href="#">lorem</a></p> </body> </html> -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
