IE6 and the !important rule 10.08.2008 @ 05:13pm 113 comments

There are some people out there that believe IE6 does not support the !important declaration but it does. However, it supports it in it's own IE6 way which I will explain.

It works fine as long as the property you are applying the !important rule to is only declared once in that selector. For example, the following would work fine in IE6:

#mybox {
    background-color: #f00;
    border: 1px solid #c00;
    height: 100px !important;
    padding: 20px;
    }

However, if you were to try this next block of code, it would not apply the !important height and will apply the other height declaration instead:

#mybox {
    background-color: #f00;
    border: 1px solid #c00;
    height: 100px !important;
    height: 150px;
    padding: 20px;
    }

So remember, only declare your property once within a selector if you would like it to be !important.

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08.09.2010 @ 07:31am

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08.09.2010 @ 07:23am

50% of users using IE still use IE6....people are reluctant to move to IE 7 which has the reputation of being a little slow

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03.09.2010 @ 12:32am

"I think that IE has many disadvantages. So it is better to use FireFox. "

Agreed, no more help for IE6 users. We need to make them upgrade lol

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27.08.2010 @ 03:12pm

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It's more !important to use a browser like firefox....

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a few people have commented to upgrade to ie8, can any one confirm that this browser version handles this rule better?

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I've found that IE6 doesn't seem to want to do anything correctly. This article should be titled 1,000,000 important rules.

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I've always succumbed to the !important stuff when I need IE6 to behave. I count on the fact that it'll read that second declaration but all the other more standards-complaint browsers will not.

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23.03.2010 @ 04:46am

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18.03.2010 @ 11:06am

I have never used IE6 but I think I want to try it to find out if the comments here are true.

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14.03.2010 @ 06:24am

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07.03.2010 @ 07:14pm

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07.03.2010 @ 04:28am

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05.03.2010 @ 02:04pm

I've seen scripts designed to crash anyone using IE6. It's more !important to use a browser like firefox.

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03.03.2010 @ 04:54am

I count on the fact that it'll read that second declaration but all the other more standards-complaint browsers will not.

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18.02.2010 @ 03:51am

Are this problem with newest versions?

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27.01.2010 @ 06:24pm

I've always succumbed to the !important stuff when I need IE6 to behave. I count on the fact that it'll read that second declaration but all the other more standards-complaint browsers will not.

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04.12.2009 @ 06:27am

I tried IE6 and I am not satisfied with it. So i shift to other internet browser which is the Mozilla Firefox.

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20.11.2009 @ 01:31pm

IE is still like pain in the a**. I had problems with quiz embedding in my web page just because of IE. And 50% of my visitors are using IE. That's really sucks.

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IE6 ?
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13.11.2008 @ 09:54pm

I've always succumbed to the !important stuff when I need IE6 to behave. I count on the fact that it'll read that second declaration but all the other more standards-complaint browsers will not.

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