!important ignored by IE

Posted January 26, 2009 in CSS tips & trick


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Normally in CSS whichever rule is specified last takes precedence. However if you use !important after a command then this CSS command will take precedence regardless of what appears after it. This is true for all browsers except IE. An [...]