definitely a rant - Why the fuck does !important actually mean important in CSS? - devRant

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C0D4

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It does? I thought it meant everything else is !important
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Codex404

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7y

When I explain css to people I do call it "not important" indeed
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karma

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7y

Everything else is !important ...

Its sparta tech 🙄
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karma

10818

7y

@C0D4 is right
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Skriptkiddy

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7y

Because organizing and structuring is not.
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Billcountry

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7y

sudo
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devTea

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7y

Why the fuck not?
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cjbatz

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7y

I can only imagine that CSS syntax was created by people that were not familiar with Java or C languages. Either that, or they just trolling the fuck out of web developers.
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Skriptkiddy

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7y

Well.. This. And what better than combining it with some true z-index?
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rageux

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7y

"!" is a delimiter (to tell the transpiler what is coming next)
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Wombat

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7y

@rageux they could have used the pipe (|) or something else couldn't they?
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Codex404

16140

7y

@Alice yeah, but then people would complain about that.
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karma

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7y

@Alice whoa, spot on

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