Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-4591506-20130821061857/@comment-3441771-20130821063434

Hi, there. The issue here is that you are trying to use inline CSS to solve something only an external stylesheet can do.

This is inline CSS (and HTML!) where I change the text to italic:

This is external stylesheet CSS, doing the same:

The former can be included on pages. But the latter can only be included in pages such as MediaWiki:Common.css, MediaWiki:Wikia.css; or in personal stylesheets like User:Starfleet Academy/wikia.css.

Larger, more helpful, post pending.