Judy reported a CSS problem, apparently arising from trying to accommodate a particular person. She also said she puts the CSS styling in the head section of her pages, rather than an external CSS file. The primary purpose of CSS (cascading style sheets) is to give a website a consistent "look-and-feel". This helps the viewer, by letting them know where they, what they're looking at and where to find stuff. Multiple looks-and-feels defeat that purpose. It seems to me that the most practical approach for consistent look-and-feel is an EXTERNAL style sheet, called in the head of the document. The external style sheet allows any styling changes to be made in one place, rather than in every page. Styling in the doc head should be reserved for adjustments from the overall site styling. And, inline styling should be reserved to only unique, non-recurring uses. The advice of Pat and Jill not to accommodate others' design preferences is well-taken; that way leads to chaos. I'd go further and say that the person who does the work of editing and publishing a site gets to be the dictator of that demesnes and everyone else just has to put up with the choices. (If they don't like it, they can publish their own site.) The webmaster (really, the web-slave) is like the captain of a ship. He or she shouldn't let the passengers keep changing the course steered or the ship will never get anywhere and may sail into dangerous waters. Or, to take another perspective: We, usually on this list, take about technicalities rather than art, but an "artistic vision" should be behind every site and it should be a unified, consistent vision. -rt_/)