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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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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.Same. Sometimes it seems to be required, like when styling a non-iframe plugin that could be embeded anywhere.
Introducing
!importanter
! For when your!important
gets!important
-ed and you need to!important
it right back!HEY THATS ME
it you!!!!
Well - this should work without
!important
:D.If you use inline styles you dont need to override anything :`(
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