class inheritance: need explanation

[bonnie]

I'm trying to understand the concept of style inheritance. I realize that a class that I create inherits from its parent style tag. But if I try to delete a class that I've made (e.g., td.bottom_align), I get the message "The style td.bottom_align cannot be removed since it is inherited and not defined in this stylesheet."

But I only have one stylesheet, so... what is this message trying to tell me?
Thanks to anyone who can explain this to me.
Bonnie?

[SteveS]

Hi Bonnie,

Is there anywhere you've applied the style? If so try removing all references from it.

I'd also open my table style sheet if I were you - that looks like a tablestyle and Flare uses a seperate stylesheet foe some of the table stuff.

[bonnie]

Is there anywhere you've applied the style? If so try removing all references from it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't find anyplace where I was using the style although I may have overlooked it.
I was able to delete the unwanted class by opening the .css file in the Internal Text Editor and deleting it there.