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Specificity, !important


 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>Specificity, !important</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
body {
    font: 24px sans-serif;
}
p {
    background: pink !important;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p style='background: lightblue;'>
            a pink background.
        </p>
    </body>
</html>