How to stop user agent stylesheets from overriding my css

Question

I\'m trying to set cursor: pointer on a dom element, but the input isn\'t taking it (I am not seeing a pointer cursor when I hover over the checkbox). In chrome, I see that

Answer 1

I thought I had this problem and checked the usual suspects, Doctype, etc. As ridiculous as this sounds, it turned out the style which I thought was being applied was commented out in the CSS. However, Chrome was displaying the style as if it was an actual style and being overridden.