when i use bold, italics, or underline my text, it doesn't work.. Options

[sadiewearspradaa...]

look. http://partyfoull.xanga.com/
the first post is supposed to be test mother f*cker.
and it looks plain.

my lay.

CODE

<style type="text/css">
/* partyfoull's personal. don't jock. */
body {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image:url(http://i31.tinypic.com/n6q9gi.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat;
background-position:top right;
}

.left, .blogbody, table.footer, .standard, .leftmodulefontcolor, td, p {
/* edits main text */
font:normal 12px arial;
line-height:11px;
color:black;
letter-spacing:0px;
}

table.footer TD {
/* don't touch */
text-align: center;
}

div.blogheader, .caption {
/* edits the dates */
display:none;
}

input, select, textarea, .textfield, .button {
/* this edits the buttons, dropdowns, etc. */
font:normal 9px verdana;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
letter-spacing:0px;
color: #000000;
}

table.left {
/* this edits the menu module */
display:none;
}

table.blogbody {
/* this edits the place where the blog is */
background-color: #ffffff;
border: 1px solid #000;
width:475;
}

table.search TD, table.announcements TH {
/* dont touch */
border: 0px solid #c0c0c0;
display:none;
}

table.navigation, table.main, table.footer {
/* the width of your blog with modules */
width: 350px;
}

hr {
/* horizontal divider */
border: 1px solid #ffffff;
}

.blogbody i, .standard i, em {
/*italic text*/
text-decoration:italic;
color:#000;
text-transform:none;
font-weight:normal;}

.blogbody u, .standard u, {
/*underlined text*/
color:#000000;
text-decoration:underline;
}

b, strong, {
/*bold text*/
font-weight: bolder;
color: #000;
}

a:link, .footernav.link, a.footernav:link, a.footernav:active {
/*general links*/
color:#000;
text-align:center;
text-transform:none;
letter-spacing:0px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height:8px;
}


a:visited, a.footernav:visited, {
/*visited links*/
color:#000 !important;
text-align:center;
text-transform:none;
letter-spacing:0px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height:8px;
}


a:hover {
/*mousedover links*/
color:#000;
cursor: cross;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing:0px;
text-decoration: none;}

table.left th, table.navigation, table.footer, .search,

.searchbarborder, table.footer, .footer, hr, banner, hr, #rblEprops

{display: none;}
table.navigation, table.main, table.footer {
width:100px;}

a:hover, a:link, .footernav.link, a.footernav:link, a.footernav:active, a:visited, a.footernav:visited {
cursor:crosshair;
}
</style>

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[HeartOfPandora]

They use a span with inline styling, so when you want to style using b/i/u, you'll need to manually write it out. No getting around it.