title: style is not applying on table under divs
body: <p>Fiddle: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/fr8Kw/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/fr8Kw/</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Html:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Table Pagination&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;style&gt;
  
          body {
              font-family: Tahoma;
          }
  
          h3 {
          background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232);
          font-size: 14px;
          font-weight: bold;
          color: gray;
          width: 786px;
          height:25px;
          margin:2em auto;
          padding-top:10px;
          padding-left:8px;
          margin-bottom: -23px;
          border: 1px solid;
          border-color: #888888;
      }
  
          table {
              table-layout: fixed;
              font-size: 12px;
              width: 810px;
              margin: 2em auto ;
          }
  
          thead {
              background:rgb(232, 232, 232);
              color:  gray;
              height:20px;
          }
  
          td {
              width: 10em;
              height:20px;
              word-wrap: break-word;
          }
  
          #localFileCopyingDiv, #supplementaryMaterialsDiv, #assetsDiv, table tr td:nth-child(1 /*this is the column number*/){
             text-align: center;
             width:30px
          }
  
          #localFileCopyingDiv, #supplementaryMaterialsDiv, #assetsDiv, table tr td:nth-child(2 /*this is the column number*/) { 
              width:250px
          }
  
          #localFileCopyingDiv, #supplementaryMaterialsDiv, #assetsDiv, table tr td:nth-child(3 /*this is the column number*/) { 
              width:250px
          }
  
          #localFileCopyingDiv, #supplementaryMaterialsDiv, #assetsDiv, table tr td:nth-child(4 /*this is the column number*/){ 
              width:60px
          }
  
          #localFileCopyingDiv #supplementaryMaterialsDiv, #assetsDiv,  table tr td:nth-child(5 /*this is the column number*/) { 
              width:220px
          }
  
          tbody {
              background:#D8D8D8  
          }
  
          div.pager {
              width: 799px;
              text-align: left;
              margin: 0 auto;
              margin-top: -20px;
          }
  
          div.pager span {
              display: inline-block;
              width: 10px;
              height: 10px;
              cursor: pointer;
              background:rgb(156, 187, 203);
              color: #fff;
              margin-right: 0.5em;
              font-size: 13px;
              padding-top: 8px;
              padding-left:8px;
              padding-bottom: 8px;
              padding-right:8px;
          }
  
          div.pager span.active {
              background: rgb(123, 167, 198);
          }
  
          .highlightedRow { 
          color : red; 
          }
  
          #fileWritingDiv table tbody {
              color : red;
          }
  
      &lt;/style&gt;
      &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="resources/javascripts/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;div id="localFileCopyingDiv"&gt;
  
      &lt;h3&gt;Local File Copying Info:&lt;/h3&gt;
  
      &lt;table class="paginated"&gt;
          &lt;thead&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;No.&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Local File Locataion&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Server File Locataion&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Status&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error Cause&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;/thead&gt;
          &lt;tbody&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
  
          &lt;/tbody&gt;
      &lt;/table&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  &lt;div id="supplementaryMaterialsDiv"&gt;
  
      &lt;h3&gt;Supplementary Materials:&lt;/h3&gt;
  
      &lt;table class="paginated"&gt;
          &lt;thead&gt;
               &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;No.&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Local File Locataion&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Server File Locataion&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Status&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error Cause&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;/thead&gt;
          &lt;tbody&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
  
          &lt;/tbody&gt;
      &lt;/table&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  &lt;div id="assetsDiv"&gt;
  
      &lt;h3&gt;Assets:&lt;/h3&gt;
  
      &lt;table class="paginated"&gt;
                  &lt;thead&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
               &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;No.&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Local File Locataion&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Server File Locataion&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Status&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error Cause&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;/thead&gt;
      &lt;tbody&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
          &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
  
          &lt;tr&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;D:\local\asdsad\asdsad\asdsad\\asdsadsa&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;Error&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;td&gt;asudhasiodjiposadhsoapidyhwuiqohdisakdnsakljhndiuosahdioasndioasyhdiuosadosadhaosiydiosadosahydiosahdosahdoysadhiosadosayhdiosahdiosahdiosadsad&lt;/td&gt;
              &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;/tbody&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;div id="fileWritingDiv"&gt;
  
          &lt;h3&gt;File Writing Status&lt;/h3&gt;
  
          &lt;table&gt;
              &lt;thead&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;File Name&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Error Cause&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
              &lt;/thead&gt;
  
              &lt;tbody&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
  
              &lt;/tbody&gt;
  
          &lt;/table&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"
                  src="resources/javascripts/tablePagination.js" /&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
          &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Problem</strong>: the following CSS rule is not being applied to any column.  Why not? </p>
  
  <pre><code>#localFileCopyingDiv, #supplementaryMaterialsDiv, #assetsDiv, table tr td:nth-child(1 /*this is the column number*/)
  {
      text-align: center;
      width:30px
  }
  </code></pre>