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Style Sheets that are less then all inclusive

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BLewisSSA

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I am trying to use a style sheet that covers the whole page (ie changes all the fonts, colors, sizes, etc to the same thing) but it isn't working. I used the Body tag as the begining like CSS standards say to do but the Style Sheet isn't changing tables or lists. If I put tables or lists in the Style Sheet then it works but not otherwise. I then tried to use the HTML tag instead of the body thinking if I went higher it would work but this to had the same effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Brad Lewis

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<body>
<div id=&quot;main&quot;>

</div>
</body>


Try that. I don't know if it will work since I didn't try it. ====================================
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You'll have to set the properties you want for the tables, lists, etc. seperately. This isn't how it is supposed to work according to specification, but that's how today's browsers do it. I think the reason is that the browser does not use the &quot;inherit&quot; value as the default for several properties of these elements. (I think this was something that was changed in CSS2.0, so the browsers just haven't caught up yet.) For example, they usually set table's font-family to 'sans-serif'. -----------------------
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That is what I thought but I wasn't sure. Thanks alot for you help Brad Lewis

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