Hi:
There are several things to try. However, if you are generating this output in the context of a stored process using the BI Platform, then you may want to work with Tech Support.
1) try using ODS HTML3 versus ODS HTML. Some changes between the 2 version is that ODS HTML3 generates HTML 3.2 compliant tags -- this was a version of HTML, in which the CSS was not required. ODS HTML in SAS 9 generates HTML 4.01 compliant tags. In the HTML 4 spec, in-line CSS or external CSS references were required.
2) If you do use ODS HTML3, then one thing you can do is either point to a "dummy" css file
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ods html3 path='c:\temp' (url=none)
file='ht3_fakecss.html'
stylesheet=(url='nothing.css');
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;
ods html3 close;
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or point to a "real" css file:
[pre]
ods html3 path='c:\temp' (url=none)
file='ht3_real_css.html'
stylesheet=(url=http://www.wombat.com/styledir/corpstyle.css');
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;
ods html3 close;
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In the first instance, a link tag will be built that points to a file called "nothing.css" -- which is just a fake name -- this will remove any inline style and keep any <font> tags out of the HTML tags. The <TABLE> tag will be generated the "old way", as you desire. In the second instance, assuming that you do have a corporate CSS file that you want/need to use, then the STYLESHEET= option points to the real location of the real CSS file to be used.
CSS and stylesheets work slightly differently on the BI platform. Not all client applications will use a CSS stylesheet -- for example, Web Report Studio and the SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office (PowerPoint) might both use different CSS (defined in the XML that styles WRS, for example; or as style is defined for the SASReport XML received by PowerPoint).
You might want to work with Tech Support, anyway, as the technique you show (FILE PRINT PS=80 LS=200 and LL=remain) are LISTING only techniques and might not work with ODS HTML. Or, if they have worked in the past, they might not continue to work as they did in the past.
cynthia
this is a useful page:
http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/ods/templateFAQ/Template_csstyle.html#defaults