When to Use !important in CSS



 Had this really irritating problem where I simply could not seem to change the color of the text to black.  Put !important and then it worked.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5701149/when-to-use-important-property-in-css




input, select {
            color: black !important;
        }

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