Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening? Neither the foreground
 color nor the background color are applied to the ActiveX control, despite 
what the CSS class says. I found a workaround so that the background color i
s applied to the ActiveX co
ntrol but that doesn't do me any good if the foreground color doesn't work. 
Right now, the only solution I can think of is to parse the CSS file, find t
he class I want, and apply the color/background-color to the placeholder's b
ody element explicitly.

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Hi Kyle

Could you tell us how the Css styles were applied?

I've tested the control using an externally linked css
file e.g:

<LINK href="myStyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
which contains:
.myCssClass
{
color: brown;
background-color:yellow;
}

and all the styles were applied, color, background and all.

Hmmm.. are you embedding the styles within a
<style></style> tag? Or maybe there is something else
overriding the styles?

Trevor

>-----Original Message-----
>Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening?
Neither the foreground color nor the background color are
applied to the ActiveX control, despite what the CSS class
says. I found a workaround so that the background color is
applied to the ActiveX control but that doesn't do me any
good if the foreground color doesn't work. Right now, the
only solution I can think of is to parse the CSS file,
find the class I want, and apply the color/background-
color to the placeholder's body element explicitly.
>.
>

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Thanks for the response, Trevor. I feel foolish admitting this but the reaso
n I was having a problem is because we have nested styles in our CSS. Our st
ylesheet looks similar to this:

.placeholderStyle {font-weight: bold;}
.bodyStyle .placeholderStyle {color: white; background-color: grey;}

We apply the bodyStyle class to the BODY element and the placeholderStyle cl
XXX to the placeholder. I was applying the placeholderStyle class to the pPl
aceholder.dom.body.className property in Stefan's AutoCssHtmlPhControl but n
ot the bodyStyle.

Which leads to another question. How can I handle this type of nested CSS st
yles with the ActiveX placeholder? The second style applies only to elements
 with a placeholderStyle class contained with elements with a bodyStyle. But
 I'm applying the placehold
erStyle to the ActiveX's body so there is nothing higher in the hierarchy to
 apply the bodyStyle to.

My current "solution": I apply the bodyStyle to the ActiveX's body, then pro
grammatically wrap the placeholder's content in a div or a span with the pla
ceholderStyle class. I don't like this because it adds the div/span wrapper 
to the placeholder content
so it has to be stripped again on save (assuming the user hasn't deleted it 
herself).

Modifying the CSS is another solution but that will be tough to change. Any 
other ideas?

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