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Hmm, looks like you can't unset CSS styles. Damn. This causes trouble for microformats, as it results in issues like hReview description areas being invisible in Wordpress with the default style.

I guess the solution is for blogging tools and aggregators to not use CSS classes like 'description' and 'item' (Bloglines has this problem - it makes my reviews look weird). That doesn't help much right now though. I'm thinking of putting a hack into the Structured Blogging plugin that rewrites <div class="description"> to <div class="description" style="font-size: 1em; text-align: left; color: black">, but then that would cause trouble for people not using Kubrick. Grr...

I imagine it's possible to delete CSS rules with Javascript hackery. Hmm...

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