Yes, the only thing that can override !important is another !important.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That rule would then become *extremely* hard to over-ride should the
> need arise. IIRC, even an inline style would get trumped by this rule.
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net>
> wrote:
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > I tried “.navbar a” and it didn’t work, but it worked when I added
> "!important", so I figured there must be Bootstrap rules that are a lot
> more specific so they’re being used. So I removed the “!important” and
> tried “.navbar ul.navbar-nav li a” and that seemed to work for most of it,
> and “.navbar a.navbar-brand” for the “Brand.” It looks like I have a lot
> more selectors to find and use, but at least now I think I know how to
> proceed.
> >
> > Would there be a disadvantage to just using the
> >
> > .navbar a {
> > color:white !important;
> > }
> > though? Sure would be easy.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Theophan
> >
> >
> >> On Oct 12, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Ryan Reese <sportsdude.re...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> You need to add the color:#FFF to your anchor rules. It's using #777
> from
> >> your other styles.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I’m trying to build a very small web site for my church’s capital
> >>> campaign, using Bootstrap, and I can’t change the color of the font in
> the
> >>> header. I put a style in the <head> section that changes the
> background
> >>> color fine, but the same selector doesn’t change the font color:
> >>>
> >>> .navbar {
> >>> background-color:#BB2F00;
> >>> color:white;
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> I’m not very good navigating my way through the tools, but when I
> tried to
> >>> see, using Firefox Developer Edition, what was actually going on, it
> really
> >>> looked to me as though the rule that was being followed was indeed
> that the
> >>> color was FFF, but my eye says it’s still the gray that Bootstrap
> specifies.
> >>>
> >>> Here’s the test page: http://raisingthecross.org/navColorTest.html
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Theophan
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