When I am looking at the CSS for a website, one of the first things I look for is to see if there are any !important styles listed. This property tells the browser that it should override the cascade for this rule. And for me it's a shorthand way of discovering if the designer has something they feel is, well, important.

Poll: Do you use the CSS !important rule in your style sheets? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, November 25th, 2010 at 01:03:50.

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