Update on this issue:

 

I read through the W3C guidelines on CSS and it appears that the author's style settings always take precedence over the reader's settings. In other words, in a situation like this:

 

<style type="text/css">
table.sample td {
padding-bottom: 0px;
width: 150px;
padding-top: 0px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
align: left;
}
</style>

 

<table class="sample" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="500" border="0">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>1</td>
            <td>2</td>
            <td>3</td>
            <td align="right">4</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>5</td>
            <td>6</td>
            <td>7</td>
            <td>8</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

 

The table will always take the td specifications in the style settings.

 

So in our problem we need a way to set the defaults of the <td> tag the same way we can set the defaults of the <table> tag in constants.js...

 

Any thoughts on this?

FredD