On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:13:12 +0200, Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 14/09/10 10:16, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:05:32 +0200, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >>> The string
> >>>
> >>> <style> .string {color: #ff4500;}</style>
> >>>
> >>> is in the html file, but it is not used - the color is hardcoded as
> >>> #ffff00:
> >> 
> >> so this has nothing to do with CSS as style specifications can only
> >> affect specific tags, not hard-coded style information.
> >
> > Agreed.
> 
> 
> M-x customize-variable RET org-export-htmlize-output-style
> 
> and set it to 'css'
> 
> HTH
> 
>   Sebastian

Thanks Sebastian.  I think that will definitely help the OP.  However,
at least on my system, I believe the variable is actually
org-export-htmlize-output-type (type, not style).

cheers,
eric