ozblog » precedence http://ozblog.com.au If your vocation is your vacation you'll never work a day in your life Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 !important ignored by IE http://ozblog.com.au/2009/01/26/important-ignored-by-ie/ http://ozblog.com.au/2009/01/26/important-ignored-by-ie/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:03:18 +0000 Levi Putna http://ozblog.com.au/?p=279 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 example of this would be:

margin-top: 3.5em !important; margin-top: 2em

So, the top margin will be set to 3.5em for all browsers except IE, which will have a top margin of 2em. This can sometimes come in useful, especially when using relative margins (such as in this example) as these can display slightly differently between IE and other browsers.

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