<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>Specificity, !important</title> <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>body { font: 24px sans-serif;}p { background: pink !important;} </style> </head> <body> <p style='background: lightblue;'> a pink background. </p> </body></html>