Content Place Holders and CSS

[Mr. Bean]

Can Content Place Holders in ASP.NET apply external css properties to its contents? For example, I have a master page with a stylesheel link to my external css file. Anything on the master page gets the appropriate properties applied, but any page I derived off of the master page will not apply the css properties.

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" Runat="Server">
<br />
<table id="searchTable">
	<tr>
		<td >
			Hello
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

</asp:Content>

The table does not get the properties applied.