Topic: Issue with "!important" styles

lukas.koch free asked 5 years ago


Why are there many mdb stylings with a "!important" at the end? That makes it so hard to override it. For example: the "primary"-color is blue by default, but in my application I want to use an other color as my "primary"-color. Red for example, but not the red from your "Danger"-button I want to use a custom red like this one: #ba091b (Hex-Color-Code). How can i accomplish that?

If i try to override the style of "btn-primary" in my styles.scss like this:

.btn-primary {
    background-color: #ba091b !important;
    border: 2px solid #ba091b !important;
    color: white !important;
}

it doesn't work..

Resources (screenshots, code snippets etc.)enter image description here

The backgroundcolor has a "!important" at the end (mdb style) and overrides my backgroundcolor which also has a "!important" at the end (styles.scss).

The border works fine because in the btn-primary mdb style there is no "border" property set

html code of the button:

<button mdbBtn floating="true" class="btn btn-primary"  size="lg"
  mdbRippleRadius (click)="runMeasurement()">
  <i class="fa fa-play"></i>
</button>

Regards, Lukas


ak.leimrey pro commented 5 years ago

Ya, I had asked something similar... or more accurately, I had seen that issue and asked for a solution. My understanding is, that they are rewriting their SCSS, so it uses the !important parameter less often.


Arkadiusz Idzikowski staff answered 5 years ago


Please use this rule:

.btn.btn-primary {
    background-color: #ba091b !important;
    border: 2px solid #ba091b !important;
    color: white !important;
}

We are already aware of that problem and we have plans to refactor our styles and remove unecessary !important flags.



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  • ForumUser: Free
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  • Technology: MDB Angular
  • MDB Version: 8.0.0
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