I am trying to create a container with a font color that is different from other containers.

 I created the content pane in the container (mycontainer.aspx):

<div id="ContentPane" runat="server" class="my-special-text"></div>

Then added code to the Container CSS file (mycontainer.css):

.my-special-text
{
   font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
   font-size: 1em;
   text-decoration: none;
   letter-spacing: 1px;
   padding: 0;
   margin: 0;
   /* color: #FCFCFC !important; */
}

The font color being used by the browser keeps coming from the .Normal declaration of my skin.css file and not the mycontainer.css file.

Yeah I mostly remove .Normal with jQuery  from all elements

but i would also add 

 m-special-text .Normal, my-special-text .Normal div, my-special-text .Normal p

just to be on the save side, you never now with the dreaded Normal class :)

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