Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide

Name

!important — IE4 Y/N | IE5 Y/Y | NN4 N/N | Op3 Y/-

Synopsis

Style declaration is made important, thereby raising its weight in the cascade. Important declarations override all others. In CSS1, important author styles override all reader styles, even important ones. In CSS2, this is reversed, so that important reader styles always win out over the author’s styles, important or otherwise.

Example

H1 {color: maroon !important;}
P.warning {color: rgb(100%,20%,20%) !important; font-weight: bold;}

Values

n/a

Default

n/a

Inherited

yes

Applies to

style rules