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Ali Spittel
Ali Spittel

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Too many people...

(also learn more about the cascade and specificity)

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Jonathan Kuhl • Edited

TBF, I use !important to override styles coming from a 3rd party library. But that's about the only case. Otherwise I agree with what Scott Tolinsky said on syntax.fm, don't use !important, ever.

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Galdin Raphael

Same. Sometimes it seems to be required, like when styling a non-iframe plugin that could be embeded anywhere.

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Steven Washington

Introducing !importanter! For when your !important gets !important-ed and you need to !important it right back!

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Emma Bostian โœจ

HEY THATS ME

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Ali Spittel

it you!!!!

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LokiDev
body div#wrapper.wrapp-class div article.notice span.my-message::after {
    content: 'too damn right';
}

Well - this should work without !important :D.

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sanidz

If you use inline styles you dont need to override anything :`(

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Jesper Rex

Shutout to my tailwind brothers :)

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Antonio Radovcic

Both
(Meme with exploding brain)

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Tamara Temple

not sure whether to laugh or cry, so i do both โค๏ธ