Poll: Do you use the CSS !important property?

One of the reasons many people don't like CSS is because it can sometimes be difficult to figure out why a property is or is not being applied. The cascade is typically the reason for this, but that doesn't help you when you're fighting with a complicated site and can't get the style to work. But there is a way to force your styles no matter what the rest of the style sheet says: the !important marker. To use it, you just put it at the end of any style call that you want to override everything else. For example:

p { color: red !important; }
p { color: black; }

This will turn all paragraphs red, even though the second style would turn them all back to black.

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