Re: [css-d] Overriding ID styles with a class?

2011-06-17 Thread Robin Button
Everyone, The naming convention is what was causing the problem .. the browsers were ignoring my rules that applied to the .2col class. All is tidy now with the .twocol class name! I appreciate Sam's prompt reply! Thanks! On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Sam Brown wrote: Thursday, June 16,

[css-d] Overriding ID styles with a class?

2011-06-16 Thread Robin Button
I'm having a problem overriding styles in a div id #wrapper, that contains column divs. I want to override the ID background style with a class to create a 2 column layout template instead of 3, and am having no luck. I assigned a class of .2col to the #wrapper of my template, and styled

Re: [css-d] Overriding ID styles with a class?

2011-06-16 Thread Tim Climis
Thanks for any help that can be provided! I am obviously overlooking something. If you use numbers as the first chracter of a class, they have to be escaped, (.\32 col) so it might be easier to rename your class to .twoCol instead. If browsers are doing the right thing, they are ignoring

Re: [css-d] Overriding ID styles with a class?

2011-06-16 Thread Robin Button
Sam, Thanks for the advice .. I will remember that, and I've renamed the class to eliminate the numeral. Robin On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Sam Brown wrote: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 11:09:41 PM, Robin wrote: RB I then wrote css as follows: RB .2col#content { /*this selector overrides