No. Unfortunately cloneNode really doesn't address the problem. What is really needed are two methods that complement each other:
1) oSourceFormatting=oSourceCell.CollectAllAttributesThatAffectEntireContents()
this would include all elements(such as font [face, size, color], Bold, Italic, etc) that enclose the entire cell's contents, plus the cell's background color, so that you can clone the cell's appearance to other cells.

and

2) oTargetCell.ApplyVisualAttributeObject(oSourceFormatting)



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>In other words, you have to traverse the DOM and do it programatically, interating to each cell in each row that corresponds to _that_ column, then programatically manipulate the HTML contents of that cell(either by re-inserting HTML or using the DOM to insert elements or set attributes on existing elements).
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>You shouldn't have to know what the heck you're imitating when you propagate a style. Can't you just use cloneNode for this? Stay ignorant of the information in your code, IOW?
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