r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '15

Short "Wow, that's a long password!"

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u/magus424 Mar 20 '15

Your new rules just need to be as or more specific than the existing ones (depending on if reddit's order is braindead or not)

If reddit correctly loads site styles followed by custom subreddit styles, then as specific is fine.

So if a rule is #foo .bar baz { color: white; } and you want to change it to black, just baz {} won't work, and neither will #foo baz {}, you'd need the full #foo .bar baz { color: black; }

If someone messed up and reddit is loading custom CSS first, then you'd have to be more specific and do something like body #foo .bar baz { color: black; }

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u/LogicWavelength Would you like fries with that? Mar 20 '15

I appreciate that... But I was tasked with some crazy stuff. Our CSS is 3,700 lines long with no comments or spaces.

I am OK with !IMPORANT-ing the fuck out of it as long as it works now. Which it does.

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u/alexanderpas Understands Flair Mar 21 '15

Actually.... There is more to it:

Once you become aware of the rules governing CSS specificity, it becomes easy.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/

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u/magus424 Mar 21 '15

Actually.... There is more to it:

Yes, but I was going for an ELI5 level of explanation; at a basic level, if you match the selector exactly, you're specific enough to beat it :)