Mambo Template CSS

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CSS attempts to create a balance of power between author and user style sheets. By default, rules in an author's style sheet override those in a user's style sheet (see cascade rule 3).

However, for balance, an "!important" declaration (the delimiter token "!" and keyword "important" follow the declaration) takes precedence over a normal declaration. Both author and user style sheets may contain "!important" declarations, and user "!important" rules override author "!important" rules. This CSS feature improves accessibility of documents by giving users with special requirements (large fonts, color combinations, etc.) control over presentation.

Declaring a shorthand property (e.g., 'background') to be "!important" is equivalent to declaring all of its sub-properties to be "!important".

Example(s):

The first rule in the user's style sheet in the following example contains an "!important" declaration, which overrides the corresponding declaration in the author's style sheet. The second declaration will also win due to being marked "!important". However, the third rule in the user's style sheet is not "!important" and will therefore lose to the second rule in the author's style sheet (which happens to set style on a shorthand property). Also, the third author rule will lose to the second author rule since the second rule is "!important". This shows that "!important" declarations have a function also within author style sheets.

/* From the user's style sheet */
p { text-indent: 1em ! important }
p { font-style: italic ! important }
p { font-size: 18pt }

/* From the author's style sheet */
p { text-indent: 1.5em !important }
p { font: normal 12pt sans-serif !important }
p { font-size: 24pt }

also: !important bedeutet, alle nicht als !important ausgezeichneten propertys werden überschrieben.

da ist mir aber immer noch klar, welchen sinn es haben soll, so etwas zu machen:

Code:

#main_outline {
   width: 848px !important;
   width: 850px;
   border: 1px solid #cccccc;
   padding: 2px;
   background: #ffffff;
}

Es wird zuerst als important deklariert, und dann kommt danach gleich eine weitere, die aber gar nicht zum tragen kommen kann, weil ja die erste important ist.
kann mir das irgendjemand erklären?