The Importance of Using !important in CSS Styles

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Published on Tue, 25 May 2010 16:37:42 GMT Indexed on 2010/05/25 16:41 UTC
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I just lost time trying to hide a CSS border in a third-party control, so it’s worth a quick post to help others avoid similar frustration. I could plainly see in the Internet Explorer 8 developer tool that an unwanted border in the Telerik RadRotator was coming from the style classes named .RadRotator_Web20 and .rrClipRegion. So, to remove the border, I inserted my own style in the page as an override: .RadRotator_Web20 .rrClipRegion { border: 0px; } No change! WTF??? Okay...(read more)

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