- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:20:13 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 27/09/2022 11:05, Ms J wrote: > Hi > > I just wanted to check, if the author is using !important in the CSS so > blocking certain tooling from easily modifying the page, does this fail > at all? For example, the tool I use doesn't work to change the word > spacing, line height and letter spacing, but if I remove '!important' > from the CSS it works. Is this just a limitation of my tooling? If am > able to go in and manually override the CSS. > > Do we go on the basis that users will have tools which will always > enable them to override the styles and then test on this basis? My take here is no, this wouldn't fail, and it's a shortcoming of the tooling used (I'd assume that if the tool injected its own `!important`, it would then override the author styles' `!important`). In my mind at least, this is more about "is it theoretically possible to override this", and doesn't hinge on the specific tools that users use (otherwise this would be a moving target of an SC). P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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