If your page and rules are valid, look at your page in Firebug. It shows you the styles in the heirarchy of inheritance, and crosses off rules that have been overridden by styles on parent containers/elements. Something "above", eg at a higer importance level, is applying font-style:normal. That is to say, a font-style:normal is cascading down onto the thing you want bolded. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/