Hi,

All skins, be default reference the Default.css file, it's a stylesheet that's always been included and contains the general DNN styles. It's referenced first, so as long as you're using the same selectors your code should have the highest specificity. There are 2 other things you can try to gain higher specificity:

1. Reference a wrapping element for the class or ID, e.g. if your skin has a wrapping DIV use that before the selector such as #pageid .class
2. add the !important element after your CSS setting

If you have a live example of the skin can you provide a link, and a rough low-down on what you're trying to achieve and I'd be happy to take a look.

Regards,

Rick.

Ah, I understand your frustration then, which is why I tend to use the PanelBar, IMO sometimes less is more, especially when you hand a site across to a client (I like the simplicity of the PanelBar and it has just about everything you need to manage the site).

From what I can see the ribbon bar does use a lot of extra code, and I can imagine it's going to take a little bit of digging (do you use the FireBug plugin?) to get it looking just the way you want.

Rick.