How to include !important in jquery

I am trying to add !important in the css attribute using jQuery like

$("tabs").css('height','650px;!important');

but !important has no effect. How to include !important in jquery?

Apparently it's possible to do this in jQuery:

$("#tabs").css("cssText", "height: 650px !important;");

Src: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/2066

I solved this problem with:

inputObj.css('cssText', inputObj.attr('style')+'padding-left: ' + (width + 5) + 'px !IMPORTANT;');

So no inline-Style is lost, an the last overrides the first

It is also possible to add more important properties:

inputObj.attr('style', 'color:black !important; background-color:#428bca !important;');

var tabsHeight = 650;
 
$("tabs").attr('style', 'height: '+ tabsHeight +'px !important');

OR

#CSS
.myclass{height:650px !important;}

then

$("tabs").addClass("myclass");

If you need to have jquery use !important for more than one item, this is how you would do it.

e.g. set an img tags max-width and max-height to 500px each

$('img').css('cssText', "max-width: 500px !important;' + "max-height: 500px !important;');

For those times when you need to use jquery to set !important properties, here is a plugin I build that will allow you to do so.

$.fn.important = function(key, value) {
    var q = Object.assign({}, this.style)
    q[key] = `${value} !important`;
    $(this).css("cssText", Object.entries(q).filter(x => x[1]).map(([k, v]) => (`${k}: ${v}`)).join(';'));
};

$('div').important('color', 'red');

If you really need to override css that has !important rules in it, for instance, in a case I ran into recently, overriding a wordpress theme required !important scss rules to break the theme, but since I was transpiling my code with webpack and (I assume this is why --)my css came along in the chain after the transpiled javascript, you can add a separate class rule in your stylesheet that overrides the first !important rule in the cascade, and toggle the heavier-weighted class rather than adjusting css dynamically. Just a thought.

You don't need !important when modifying CSS with jQuery since it modifies the style attribute on the elements in the DOM directly. !important is only needed in stylesheets to disallow a particular style rule from being overridden at a lower level. Modifying style directly is the lowest level you can go, so !important has no meaning.