fdp css negates docbook attributes

[Thomas Jones]

Has anyone here noticed that the css declarations removes the 
capabilities of various docbook elements?

For instance, I have some data that I have put into a table. I followed 
all semantics of the CALS table attributes that docbook utilizes. Yet, I 
am unable to successfully alter the table attributes and their 
appropriate values to achieve the desired outcome --- because of html 
attribute inclusion by css.

i.e.

    <table id="entities" frame="all"><title>Demonstration Entities and 
Relationships</title>
      <tgroup cols="3" align="left" colsep="0" rowsep="0">   
        <thead>
...

Now this should result in the following:

A framed table with three columns, all aligned to the left, and all rows 
and columns NOT seperated.

But instead I get a framed table with a header background color of 
#a9a9a9, a body background color of #dcdcdc, all aligned to the left, 
and all rows and columns ARE seperated.

To do this, i should have declared so using the bgcolor and border 
attributes. This breaks the element.

Thomas