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by ZYinMD 1549 days ago
"!important" means "not important", I guess the engineers didn't like the law makers so they made this an insider joke.
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This is how I read it in my head. This also confirms to me that the CSS designers made at least one very obvious error, not appreciating that ! means negation to anyone with a moderate amount of coding experience, and undermines my confidence in the whole language.