Title: !important in CSS
Last modified: September 4, 2019

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# !important in CSS

 *  Resolved [Bree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifesgood/)
 * (@lifesgood)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/)
 * Hello, and thank you so much for this plugin.
 * I was wondering what the importance of the !important is in the subscribe.css
   file is?
 *     ```
       body .entry-content .pp-sub-widget a:link, body .entry-content .pp-sub-widget a:visited, body .entry-content .pp-sub-widget a:active, body .entry-content .pp-sub-widget a:hover, body .pp-sub-widget a:link, body .pp-sub-widget a:visited, body .pp-sub-widget a:active, body .pp-sub-widget a:hover {
           text-decoration: none !important;
           color: #FFFFFF !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * I really need to change the colour but I can’t while ever this is there – writing
   my own CSS with my own !important doesn’t help. Any advice or suggestions?
 * Thank you so much in advance.

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 *  Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * (@shawnogordo)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11899317)
 * I have asked the Blubrry dev team to look at your question. A response will be
   posted here as soon as they’ve had a chance to do so.
 *  Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * (@shawnogordo)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11904518)
 * The Blubrry dev team is actively looking into this. The code snippet you mentioned
   has the “important” in there because they found that if the code was altered,
   sometimes the subscribe buttons didn’t display correctly.
 *  Thread Starter [Bree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifesgood/)
 * (@lifesgood)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11904572)
 * Thank you so much for the update. I hope there is a workaround solution so the
   buttons can be styled to match my theme?
 *  Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * (@shawnogordo)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11909733)
 * I can’t say for sure but I will make sure the Blubrry dev team knows this is 
   something you’d like to see in a future update.
 *  Thread Starter [Bree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifesgood/)
 * (@lifesgood)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11915638)
 * Great, thank you, it’s really important (no pun intended!)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Angelo Mandato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandato/)
 * (@amandato)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11954175)
 * Hello Bree,
 * Just to give you an update, we’re looking at what options we can do to remove
   the !important tag for the buttons. I do see in our notes that we added it for
   situations where other themes were making the buttons inoperable because of how
   they changed the text. For example the text contracts needs to remain for visually
   impaired users, and the non underlined text is so the buttons do not have underlines
   under them.
 * Also one option we’re thinking about is a checkbox in the settings that would
   remove the important tags, would that suffice for you? We’re also working on 
   a similar issue for right to left text, though different problem it’s all about
   the CSS. 🙂
 * Thanks,
    Angelo
 *  Plugin Support [Shawn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawnogordo/)
 * (@shawnogordo)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11983324)
 * This is from Angelo:
 * We have a new beta version of the next release of PowerPress available that addresses
   the problem above.
 * Download here: [https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/powerpress-beta/](https://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/powerpress-beta/)
 * To turn off the styling, go to PowerPress Settings > Website tab, near the bottom
   under the section titled “Subscribe Widget” select “Yes” next to “Custom CSS 
   styling?” to not have the “!important” and “text-align:left” styling added to
   the CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [Bree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifesgood/)
 * (@lifesgood)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/important-in-css-2/#post-11983781)
 * Thank you SO much for your help! Really appreciate it Shawn + Angelo. I will 
   try it out.

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