How can I override inline styles with external CSS

Question

I have markup that uses inline styles  but I don t have access to change this markup  How do I override inline styles in a document using only CSS  I don t want to use jQuery or JavaScript   HTML    lt div style  font-size  18px  color  red   gt      Hello World  How Can I Change The Color To Blue   lt  div gt    CSS   div      color  blue         This Isn t Working

User · Accepted Answer

The only way to override inline style is by using !important keyword beside the CSS rule. The following is an example of it.

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div {
        color: blue !important;
       /* Adding !important will give this rule more precedence over inline style */
    }

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<div style="font-size: 18px; color: red;">
    Hello, World. How can I change this to blue?
</div>

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Important Notes:

Using !important is not considered as a good practice. Hence, you should avoid both !important and inline style.

Adding the !important keyword to any CSS rule lets the rule forcefully precede over all the other CSS rules for that element.

It even overrides the inline styles from the markup.

The only way to override is by using another !important rule, declared either with higher CSS specificity in the CSS, or equal CSS specificity later in the code.

Must Read - CSS Specificity by MDN

User · Answer

used  important in CSS property    lt div style  color  red   gt      Hello World  How Can I Change The Color To Blue   lt  div gt       div           color  blue  important

User · Answer

lt div style  background  red   gt      The inline styles for this div should make it red   lt  div gt   div style       background  yellow  important      Below is the link for more details  http   css-tricks com override-inline-styles-with-css

User · Answer

You can easily override inline style except inline  important style   so    lt div style  font-size  18px  color  red   gt      Hello World  How Can I Change The Color To Blue   lt  div gt   div      color  blue  important         This will  Work        but if you have    lt div style  font-size  18px  color  red  important   gt      Hello World  How Can I Change The Color To Blue   lt  div gt   div      color  blue  important         This Isn t Working        now it will be red only    and you can not override it

User · Answer

important  after your CSS declaration  div      color  blue  important          This Is Now Working

User · Answer

inline-styles in a document have the highest priority  so for example say if you want to change the color of a div element to blue  but you ve an inline style with a color property set to red   lt div style  font-size  18px  color  red   gt     Hello World  How Can I Change The Color To Blue   lt  div gt    div      color  blue         This Won t Work  As Inline Styles Have Color Red And As        Inline Styles Have Highest Priority  We Cannot Over Ride        The Color Using An Element Selector        So  Should I Use jQuery Javascript  - Answer Is NO  We can use element-attr CSS Selector with  important  note   important is important here  else it won t over ride the inline styles     lt div style  font-size  30px  color  red   gt      This is a test to see whether the inline styles can be over ridden with CSS   lt  div gt    div style       font-size  12px  important     color  blue  important      Demo     Note  Using  important ONLY will work here  but I ve used   div style  selector to specifically select div having style   attribute

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