Mike,
Maybe someone with better knowledge of CSS will step in with recommendations. You might want to ask this particular question over in the web area.
>Yes I realized that the border-style/width properties have to be set to each individual object in the document (including the latter). That's how I got my buttons and textboxes to appear flat. What I was unable to do was get a dropdown list to behave "flat" using the same border settings for its style. Seems to be impossible.