Michaux, > it seems my styles aren't inherited in the design view of Dreamweaver. i.e. > my body text is set at .8em, which, it seems should follow that my table > would inherit this property, but no i have to reapply font-size to <tds>. > what up? anyone else had this problem? What browser make and model are you using? The behavior you describe (font sizes are not inherited from the body element within table elements) was standard for IE/Win32 until IE 6 [1]. James Aylard 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp#csse nhancements_topic8