Title: Wrong use !important  in CSS Stye Sheet
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Wrong use !important in CSS Stye Sheet

 *  Resolved [goodmuyis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/goodmuyis/)
 * (@goodmuyis)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-use-important-in-css-stye-sheet/)
 * Wrong use !important in the following, this would force the child theme to use!
   important as well, but if your css was loaded first, my child theme style is 
   rendered useless.
 * Something like
 *     ```
       div.style 
   
       or 
   
       div#style
       ```
   
 * would be better
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11178673/how-to-override-important](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11178673/how-to-override-important)
 * Below are the line important was used
 *     ```
       Line 1323:     font-size: 100% !important;
       Line 1377:     color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important;
       Line 1378:     font-size: 12px !important;
       Line 1380:     margin: 0 auto !important;
       Line 1382:     text-align: center !important;
       Line 1527:     margin-left: 1.5em !important;
       Line 1542:     color:#f8f8f8 !important;
       Line 1543:     border-bottom:2px solid #ee4b3a !important;
       ```
   
 * Pls try and fixe them

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 *  Theme Author [Fruit Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruit-themes/)
 * (@fruit-themes)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-use-important-in-css-stye-sheet/#post-6074705)
 * Fixed in the latest version 1.0.7

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