Too bad I'm dumb.  I used to put all this code in my stylesheets so that I could format a table in HTML.  And then I would say <table class="tablestyle">...</table>.  I just figured something out that's incredibly easier.  In the stylesheet or wherever you define styles, just say this:  table { font; background; etc }.  That way, every time you insert a table, it follows this prescribed format.  So easy. #technology