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Prevent inheritance of styles from parent element

Asked by rowan_bradley in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Tags: css style inheritance parent reset default

I've got a web site that currently works fine, but needs a bit of a face-lift. It incudes all sorts of content, tables, images etc., some of which is created by javascripts that I got from elsewhere and am not 100% competent to change. I now want to have this page appear in a large white box centred on a light grey background. I've more or less achieved this by making the page background light grey, and creating a single cell table with a white background, padding-left and padding-right 50px etc. but my problem is that I want the original content to appear in the box but otherwise exactly like it was before. I can't stop it inheriting all sorts of properties (in particular the padding) from the parent table. I've read lots of articles that say you can't stop CSS from inheriting, that's what it was designed to do, you just have to create another style to override the inherited values, but I don't even know what properties to give this new style. It can't really be this difficult to do something so simple, can it? How do I get this to do what I want?

Thanks - Rowan

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Prevent inheritance of styles from parent element

Asked by rowan_bradley in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Tags: css style inheritance parent reset default

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