Title: !important in core css
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# !important in core css

 *  Resolved [taylorsuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taylorsuk/)
 * (@taylorsuk)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-core-css/)
 * Hi,
 * Great work.
 * Can I ask why `.dataTables_paginate a` has `#111!important` ?
 * It makes it impossible to override on custom css or my style.css?
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-core-css/#post-6105592)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Good question… I should probably remove that. From what I remember, it comes 
   from the DataTables default CSS.
 * You can however still override that, by just using a more specific CSS selector
   and by also using the `!important` flag. Something like this should already work:
 *     ```
       .dataTables_wrapper .dataTables_paginate a {
         color: #ff0000 !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [taylorsuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taylorsuk/)
 * (@taylorsuk)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-core-css/#post-6105602)
 * That works fine… thanks.
 * Great work, great support, donation inbound…
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-core-css/#post-6105620)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
    And thanks
   for the donation, I really appreciate it!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-core-css/#post-6105620)
 * Status: resolved