XF 1.2 Important Declaration

[Amaury]

How do you determine if something needs an important declaration?

 

[Paul B]

If you can't get the styling to stick without it.

 

[Amaury]

I was just thinking of this while making a thread on TAZ and rather than create a new thread, I figured I'd bump this.

Is this another correct way of looking at it? If you search the templates for the custom CSS and templates come up (e.g., forum_list), use !important, but if there are no results, then !important wouldn't be necessary?

Also, Brogan, when you said "if you can't get the styling to stick," did you mean that without !important it works at first, but then stops, or doesn't work at all?

 

[Paul B]

If you use higher specificity, in most cases you won't need to use !important.

In some cases, certain templates/classes are compiled after EXTRA.css which will necessitate the use of !important.

 

[Amaury]

If you use higher specificity, in most cases you won't need to use !important.

In some cases, certain templates/classes are compiled after EXTRA.css which will necessitate the use of !important.

Ah, okay. So something like this is what you mean, correct?

.subHeading = !important needed
.thread_view .subHeading = !important not needed

 

[Paul B]

More or less, yes.

 

[Amaury]

More or less, yes.

Thanks for your amazing support and response time as always, Brogan.