Ok, i thought I had a fairly decent grasp of Acquisition, but mehtinks I need to rethink that theory. Situation: I have a folder: /Styles in the root folder. In this folder are stylesheets. These stylesheets use dtml variables for certain things, ie. ... color: <!--#var MainTextColor-->; ... The main folder has this property defined, and all works. The stylesheet is referenced by: <link href=Styles/primary rel=stylesheet type="text/css"> in the standard header. Now comes the confusion, I thought that if under a subfolder, say /Home, if would use the main folder's properties, unless I defined the variables in that folder's properties tab. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work that way. If I define MainTextColor on the propertysheet for /Home, nothing changes. If I copy the /Styles to /Home, it works, but that isn't what I am after. What, if anything, am I misunderstanding. (Zope2, ZODB3) Bill Anderson