Adam,

 

Thank you for your reply.  I removed it as in:

But no change.   Having done a "View Source" from IE i see that the component is pulling other CSS files of its own and/or defining styles.   I'm thinking it must be a conflict with my other CSS files because I created a new aspx file in the same project but didn't use any of my master pages (which link to my CSS files) and it displayed fine.   Some kind of conflicting container div definition?

 

If you'd like to see my own CSS files:

and

 

 I'm stumped as to where to start to figure out the conflict - if I'm on the right track anyway.