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I have a panelformlayout and with panellabelandmessages and various other stuff in it. My alignment of fields is screwed because my plam items are left padded by 9px. Why I dont know. So I decided to pad all the other items by 9px to keep it all looking good. (the plam items seem like they are hard codex to 9px or something). So I add a style class to the other items called leftPad but the style doesnt work. So I added a background color to my style to check if I got my items correct and like magic the padding and the color work. So I just changed the background back to the original color and everything works - like magic. Styled item <af:inputtext columns="#{bindings.Attr1.hints.displayWidth}" id="it25" label="#{bindings.Attr1.hints.label}" maximumlength="#{bindings.Attr1.hints.precision}" required="true" shortdesc="#{bindings.Attr1.hints.tooltip}" styleclass="leftPad" value="#{bindings....