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MacIE does not support the ! important priority.
This is most useful for user stylesheets (which MacIE also does
not support), since it allows users to override author rules when
they need to. Since the definition of !important
is different in CSS1 and CSS2, authors should not use
!important because CSS1 browsers (such as MSIE
4.0 for Windows) allow authors using !important
to override all user styles.
This paragraph uses the following styles:
div.one * { color: green ! important; }
p.two { color: red; }
These styles should make the following paragraph green. Instead, they make it red:
This text should be green.