https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/question-about-css-using-important-to-overwrite-styles Gravity Support Forums Topic: Question about css & using !important to overwrite styles en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:15:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/question-about-css-using-important-to-overwrite-styles#post-20800 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:48:02 +0000 Kevin Flahaut 20800@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>If you use better CSS specificity, then you shouldn't have to resort to using the !important declaration too often.</p> <p>This guide has some samples that should get you going in the right direction.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rocketgenius.com/gravity-forms-css-targeting-specific-elements/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rocketgenius.com/gravity-forms-css-targeting-specific-elements/</a></p> <p>If you want to know more about CSS specificity, then here's probably more than you'll ever need.</p> <p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/" rel="nofollow">http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/question-about-css-using-important-to-overwrite-styles#post-20791 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:45:40 +0000 studioleland 20791@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have been using the GF forms for quite some time. Recently I had to do quite a bit of css work for a project and I found myself adding !important after almost every css class declaration in my style.css stylesheet so that it would be rendered instead of the default classes. Is there a place I should be declaring these custom css rules so that I don't have to declare an !important after each one. It becomes rather tedious. I usually start with the default css as a base and work from there so I can maintain the basic form styles which come packaged with GF for standards compliance. </p>