CSS - Don't strip spacing before !important

[namanyayg]

If !important is used on css declarations, the whitespace before it is stripped, rendering the whole important and the declaration obsolete.

[tml]

This was merged into 2.4.8

[GoalSmashers]

@tml @namanyayg Could you provide any examples where stripping a space before '!important' leads to a broken styling?

We got the similar request in https://github.com/GoalSmashers/clean-css but without a test case it's not possible to verify if you made a mistake or if there is a very specific case where the space has to be there.

According to our tests it is OK to get rid of it. What's more such code has been used in production for couple years now without any issues.

[nanodeath]

Can we get some background or data on this, or revert the change? Without any more information, this seems like a needless regression. We've also been using 2.4.7 for a while now in production without issue.

[blowsie]

I can confirm that this space is important in some browsers / mail clients.

Outlook 2007 is definitely effected by this.

[blowsie]

Also, although its not in the spec that a space should be present, all of their examples have it.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#important-rules

[GoalSmashers]

So you punish all other browsers because of Outlook 2007?

[blowsie]

Yes. And punish? Hardly. The rule shouldn't really be used anyway. But its required to fix bad implementations of browers etc. eg. Outlook 2007 etc.

[GoalSmashers]

If you consider Outlook 2007 a browser then good for you. 👍

[blowsie]

@GoalSmashers Really? I even stated bad implementations of browsers.

Outlook makes up for a huge percentage of the mail client market share.