CSS and Server Side controls

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C#5.0

Howdy ... I'd like to obtain some input with regards to specifying a CssClass for all server side controls vice having to specify the CssClass property for each control in the HTML. For example:

<div class="data_entry_form">

   <div class="rowElem">
      <div class="data_entry_pair">
         <SFWeb:Label  ID="lblFirstName"  runat="server" CssClass="label" Text="First Name:"></SFWeb:Label>
          <SFWeb:TextBox  ID="txtFirstName"  runat="server" CssClassclass="input"></SFWeb:TextBox>
        </div>

    </div>

The corresponding CssClass looks like this:

.data_entry_form .data_entry_pair .label{
    font: normal 12px "Verdana", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin-right:5px;
    text-align:left;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    width: auto;
    }

.data_entry_form .data_entry_pair .input{
    font: bold 12px "Verdana", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin-right: 20px;
    text-align:left;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    }

I'd like to be able to define the CssClass to something like this (no period in the "label" part):

.data_entry_form .data_entry_pair label{
    font: normal 12px "Verdana", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin-right:5px;
    text-align:left;
    background-color:#FFFFFF;
    width: auto;
    }

Thus alleviating the necessity to define the CssClass for every <sfweb:label xmlns:sfweb="#unknown"> and <sfweb:textbox> in the "data_entry_pair" group.

As an additional note, I do have access to the control's server-side code. It seems logical to me to set this programmaticaly in the control's constructor, but I don't know where that is located in the code framework's code.

Just for reference, the client side HTML source renders like so:

<div class="rowElem">
    <div class="data_entry_pair" style="width:250px">
        <span id="ctl00_Body_lblSortName" class="label">Sort Name:</span>
        <input name="ctl00$Body$txtSortName" type="text" id="ctl00_Body_txtSortName" class="input" style="width:250px;" />
    </div>
</div>

Long question I know ... thanks for reading. I just hate having to repeat the same thing over and over again when it could be programmed once (which is what OO is partially about).

Thank you!