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!important has higher priority

 

<!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-size: 24px;
}
p {
    background: lightblue !important;
}
p {
    background: none;
}        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
            This paragraph has a lightblue background.
        </p>
        <p>
            This paragraph also has a lightblue background.
        </p>
    </body>
</html>








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