Question

a {
        font-size: 8pt;
        text-align: left !important;
        text-decoration: none;
  }

.main {
        text-align: center;
  }

 <div class="main">
    <a href="#new_york_city">New York City</a><br />
    <a href="#long_island">Long Island</a><br />
    <a href="#upstate">Upstate New York</a><br />
</div>

This is a compact version of what I have and for me, using Firefox 5, the links are STILL centered, even though I I’m using !important on the “text-align: left”. It’s confusing and irritating because i thought !important was the highest specificity and overrode all other rules.

What’s wrong here?

Answer 1

The text alignment needs to be set on the parent element of the anchor-links, you cannot tell an anchor-link to align itself to the left as it is of a fixed width. You need to either remove text-align:center; from the .main section, or add another class to the div like ‘alignLeft’ and apply the alignment with the !important rule there.