> I can't remember the last time I ever had to use !important except when I had to work with some ridiculous CSS "framework" my predecessors chose to use. At le

> I can't remember the last time I ever had to use !important except when I had to work with some ridiculous CSS "framework" my predecessors chose to use. At least !important was understandable back in the days when it was really hard to achieve some things with CSS, but these days I believe there's little to no excuse. Yep. I find of the usage of !important I see daily is failure of the programmer to understand precedence rules, which, as you pointed towards, is mostly due to cascading.