I was just looking at some css coding and I seem to see !important in a lot of them. I was just wondering, when do I put this? I was trying out certain things and it seems to work without it.

!important overrides commands.

For example lets say my CSS shows

body {
color:000000;
}

and lower down in my HTML I want the text to be white then I would make an inline style put the color and !important after it.

After 2 years of education, I have learned that that !important is only to be used for de-bugging as further down the line it can prove a pain in the backside!

blindbat, I would also not suggest you use in-line it is very messy and un-practicle

I personally don't use inline styles just was an example. Yes you can use it for debugging but if all else fails and it isn't working you put !important you bet your ass it will work.

I never said It would not work, I just said it was in-practicle.

Say you have a paragraph tag and in your web-page you want all of them to be red and you used important

Code:

p { color: #FF0000 !important; }

Further down the line you wanted to add another paragraph inside a div with an id and wanted the text to be green you would normaly just have to use...

Code:

#licked p { color: #1CA600; }

But becuase you applied the important to all of the p tags earier in the CSS it wont work and you will think that you have done something wrong, when really you have not you have just applied an important tag

Hope this helps