base css style ignored

[rweiss 0]

I am styling boxes on my home page, and set some borders around the boxes. In order for the boxes to work, I needed narrower margins so that the 4 boxes would fit. But Firebug tells me that the there is a style that is overriding my base style. I even deleted the dynamic.css style for .dcol4 to try and get it to set - and it refuses. The one that overrides is from the system itself (Firebug identifies the domain as the source of this overriding style). I know that changing the margin allows the boxes to fit (using firebug) but I can't get the system to accept my changes. I checked the make inline styles box to see if it is a caching issue and it made no difference. On a side note - I would really like to style each box with a different background color, but I can't seem to get any kind of ID from Firebug that would make this possible. Rick

[kastelic 6]

To override the dynamic styles you can always use !important, like: .class {width: 50px !important} As for unique id's for the boxes. look at the outermost wrapper of each individual box in the set, it has a unique id like "fbox_19"

[rweiss 0]

Thanks - the !important worked only after I deleted the dynamic.css lines about margin width. I thought about the fbox_# but the numbers were so high I thought they were likely to be dynamic and would therefore be impossible to create a style for. I'll give that a try.