body{
font-family:verdana;
font-size:12px;
color:#333;
}
.ddsmoothmenu{
font: bold 12px Verdana;
background: #414141; /*background of menu bar (default state)*/
width: 100%;
margin-top:10px;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul{
z-index:100;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}

/*Top level list items*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li{
position: relative;
display: inline;
float: left;
}

/*Top level menu link items style*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li a{
display: block;
background: #414141; /*background of menu items (default state)*/
color: white;
padding: 8px 10px;
border-right: 1px solid #778;
color: #2d2b2b;
text-decoration: none;
}

* html .ddsmoothmenu ul li a{ /*IE6 hack to get sub menu links to behave correctly*/
display: inline-block;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li a:link, .ddsmoothmenu ul li a:visited{
color: white;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li a.selected{ /*CSS class that's dynamically added to the currently active menu items' LI A element*/
background: black; 
color: white;
}

.ddsmoothmenu ul li a:hover{
background: #CF0000;/*black; /*background of menu items during onmouseover (hover state)*/
color: white;
}
	
/*1st sub level menu*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
display: none; /*collapse all sub menus to begin with*/
visibility: hidden;
}

/*Sub level menu list items (undo style from Top level List Items)*/
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li{
display: list-item;
float: none;
}

/*All subsequent sub menu levels vertical offset after 1st level sub menu */
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li ul{
top: 0;
}

/* Sub level menu links style */
.ddsmoothmenu ul li ul li a{
font: normal 13px Verdana;
width: 160px; /*width of sub menus*/
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
border-top-width: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
}

/* Holly Hack for IE \*/
* html .ddsmoothmenu{height: 1%;} /*Holly Hack for IE7 and below*/


/* ######### CSS classes applied to down and right arrow images  ######### */

.downarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 12px;
right: 7px;
}

.rightarrowclass{
position: absolute;
top: 6px;
right: 5px;
}

/* ######### CSS for shadow added to sub menus  ######### */

.ddshadow{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
background: silver;
}

.toplevelshadow{ /*shadow opacity. Doesn't work in IE*/
opacity: 0.8;
}


a.breadcrumbs{color:#222;text-decoration:none;font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;text-transform:capitalize}
a.breadcrumbs:hover{color:#000;text-decoration:underline}

h1.topic_header{color:#9C0010;margin-top:0px;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:18px;border-top:1px solid #ccc;border-bottom:3px dotted #ccc;width:98%;padding:5px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:century gothic,arial;margin-top:2px;text-transform:capitalize}
h1.topic_header_page{color:#000;margin:0px;font-size:22px;font-weight:normal;width:98%;padding:3px;margin-bottom:10px;text-transform:capitalize}

h1.topic_title{color:#285886;margin:0px;font-size:22px}
/*h1.topic_header_smaller{color:#9C0010;margin:5px;font-size:15px;border-bottom:3px dotted #ccc;margin-bottom:10px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:5px;font-family:century gothic,arial}*/
h1.topic_header_smaller{color:#9C0010;margin-top:0px;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:18px;border-top:0px solid #ccc;border-bottom:3px dotted #ccc;width:85%;padding:5px;padding-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;font-family:century gothic,arial;margin-top:10px}
a.topic_title{color:#285886;margin:0px;font-size:24px;text-decoration:none}
a.topic_title:hover{color:#9C0010;margin:0px;font-size:24px;}
a.topic_title_small{font-weight:bold;color:#285886;margin:0px;font-size:17px;text-decoration:none;padding:0px;}
a.topic_title_small:hover{color:#9C0010;margin:0px;font-size:17px}

a.topic_title_smaller{font-weight:bold;color:#285886;margin:0px;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none;padding:0px;}
a.topic_title_smaller:hover{color:#9C0010;margin:0px;font-size:12px}

h1{margin:0px;font-size:22px}


li.related_article{color:#9C0010;margin:0px;margin-top:15px;font-size:15px}
a.related_article{color:#285886;margin:0px;font-size:12px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold}
a.related_article:hover{color:#9C0010;margin:0px;font-size:12px;}

span.related_article_date{color:#999;;margin:5px;font-size:12px}

img.article{border:1px solid #ccc;width:170px;margin-bottom:10px}

img.related_article{border:1px solid #ccc;width:173px;margin-bottom:10px}

img.related_article_side{border:1px solid #ccc;width:133px;margin-bottom:10px}


img.links{border:1px solid #000;float:left;margin-right:5px;}

img.biglinks{border:1px solid #000;float:left;margin-right:5px;width:200px;height:200px}

a.reply{color:#000;text-decoration:none}
a.reply:hover{color:#000;text-decoration:underline}

a.footer{color:#000;text-decoration:none}
a.footer:hover{color:#000;text-decoration:underline}

a.url_link{color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none}
a.url_link:hover{color:#0066CC;text-decoration:underline}