Some properties are inherited

I'm using Joomla with my own template. Wanted to tweak CSS file, used by Fireboard forum and realised that this CSS file is not working as expected. To be more exact, I have relatively tall forum header. It looks like search form has offset related to forum name and main forum menu. And there is enough width to be displayed without offset. I would like to modify this so that it would be in-line and the header would be short. For some reason, my modifications made for forum CSS don't work.
I figured out that the roots of this problem are in my template for Joomla. When Joomla CSS is disabled (through Firefox webmaster toolbar) forum looks as it should. This means that some properties are inherited from Joomla. But I could not figure out what exactly.
And this forum component is displayed inside central part of Joomla.
I'm attaching my template just in case that some of webmaster CSS Guru would have a chance to look
and advice.
Link for my site is here
Thank you.

Attached Files

deal_times.zip (87.1 KB, 18 views)

All you need to do is look for #searchbox

Change the margin-top to something like 5px instead of 47px and the entire table row will be smaller.

You gave a good idea. I started to look around this "searchbox" properties and found out that in both my Joomla template and Fireboard template the same name for id #searchbox{} was used. As soon as the same id could not be used more than one time on a page, searchbox in Fireboard had the same properties as my Joomla searchbox. As soon as I changed this id in Joomla template and CSS the problem was fixed.
Thank you, Lchad.

You are welcome! I like the easy ones!