Posted by Chris Beall on 02/01/06 03:20

John Salerno wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Concerning the joys of working with someone else's markup: Is there
>>> a way to have my external stylesheet override the inline fonts (and
>>> other deprecated style elements) that are in these other html
>>> files?
>>
>>
>> Yes, but you need to use !important.
>>
>
> Where do I put this? After every rule in my stylesheet?
John,

Yep. See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#important-rules.

It might be easier to clean up the original HTML, especially if you're
going to be maintaining the site later.

Chris Beall

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