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Dec 3, 2017 at 10:19 comment added Mike Rosoft This is not correct; user !important rules take precedence over site !important rules, but site normal rules take precedence over user normal rules. (So if a site sets some value for a CSS property, a user style can't override it without using !important.)
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Sep 14, 2010 at 7:46 comment added Kyle I don't care about IE6, but 7 and 8 I have to support, being that most of our customers use IE7 and 8, even some people in this office still use it, despite my insistent pressing for them to change to FF or Chrome.
Sep 14, 2010 at 7:42 history edited Delan Azabani CC BY-SA 2.5
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Sep 14, 2010 at 7:40 comment added BoltClock !important does not work only when specifying it on a repeating property in the same rule in IE6. IE7 handles that correctly.
Sep 14, 2010 at 7:34 comment added Delan Azabani I believe that IE 6 and 7 do not work with !important; see this page: evolt.org/node/60369
Sep 14, 2010 at 7:33 history edited Delan Azabani CC BY-SA 2.5
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Sep 14, 2010 at 7:28 comment added BoltClock Actually, !important works on most IEs (IE6 has a slightly incorrect implementation). For IE support I think you're referring to inherit, which indeed only works since IE8.
Sep 14, 2010 at 7:26 history answered Delan Azabani CC BY-SA 2.5