Title: Overriding !important
Last modified: August 4, 2024

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# Overriding !important

 *  Resolved [dtwatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtwatson/)
 * (@dtwatson)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overriding-important/)
 * Is there an easy way to override all of these !important CSS tags? It’s such 
   a headache to make the most simple changes. Someone should be fired.
 * Thanks for any help.

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 *  Plugin Support [andrewshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewshu/)
 * (@andrewshu)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overriding-important/#post-17933159)
 * Hello
 * You could add a “body” before selectror. For example:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       .um-form{ margin: 5px !important;}body .um-form{ margin: 0 !important;} 
       ```
   
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter [dtwatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtwatson/)
 * (@dtwatson)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overriding-important/#post-17933172)
 * Thanks so much for your help but I’m still confused. Here’s the main obstacle
   that I’m trying to work around. The font size is too small.
 * .um-activity-widget div.um-activity-textarea textarea,.um-activity-widget div.
   um-activity-textarea textarea:focus,.um-activity-widget div.um-activity-textarea
   textarea:hover {
   border: none!important;resize: none;padding: 10px 15px!important;
   min-height: auto!important;font-size: 13px!important;outline: 0!important}
 *  Plugin Support [andrewshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewshu/)
 * (@andrewshu)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overriding-important/#post-17935529)
 * Hello [@dtwatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtwatson/)
 * Try this code:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       body .um-activity-widget div.um-activity-textarea textarea,body .um-activity-widget div.um-activity-textarea textarea:focus,body .um-activity-widget div.um-activity-textarea textarea:hover {border: none !important;resize: none;padding: 10px 15px !important;min-height: auto !important;font-size: 16px !important;outline: 0 !important}
       ```
   
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter [dtwatson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtwatson/)
 * (@dtwatson)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overriding-important/#post-17935537)
 * It worked! Thanks so much! I was beginning to lose faith in humanity…lol

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overriding-important/#post-17935537)
 * Status: resolved