Phil Matt wrote:

>When I turned to the routine that formats each single result, specifically the <dl> that 
>handles the listing of each result, I find that styles called do not work, although I can 
>declare:  
>
><dd style="width:65%; background-color: #DCEDED">
>
>and the styling works as expected. If I use "<dd class="mystyle"> or <dd id="mystyle"> 
>the styling isn't applied.
>
>  
>

Have you validated your stylesheet syntax and HTML markup?  Modern 
browsers don't have any problems applying valid, correctly applied 
styles to valid markup.

For '<dd class="mystyle">', at least one of the stylesheet applied to 
your page would need to have 'dd.mystyle {...}' or just ".mystyle {...}".

For '<dd id="mystyle">', at least one of the stylesheets would need to 
have '#mystyle {...}'.  Each id attribute must be unique within the HTML 
page; you can reuse class attributes as often as needed.

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Thomas Dowling
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