diff --git a/gracedb/templates/base.html b/gracedb/templates/base.html
index 136160bb7e1d5206258db84304698e96595cbe3c..754a5ae644242b78fae1ba61ce076eb608074179 100644
--- a/gracedb/templates/base.html
+++ b/gracedb/templates/base.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
     {# remove requests for favicon #}
     <link rel="icon" href="data:,">
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/style.css" %}" />
+    {% block csslink %}<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/style.css" %}" /> {% endblock %}
     <title>GraceDb | {% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
 <!-- START TESTING -->
 <script type="text/javascript">
diff --git a/gracedb/templates/superevents/public.html b/gracedb/templates/superevents/public.html
index 35a1104329c31ef24585024c39f78ae03a5d2f4f..a4e63c2f16584b85e2b16a0fd9fccc413fa8bdcd 100644
--- a/gracedb/templates/superevents/public.html
+++ b/gracedb/templates/superevents/public.html
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
 {% extends "base.html" %}
 {% load sanitize_html %}
 {% load logtags %}
+{% load static %}
+
+{% comment %}
+{% block csslink %}<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/public.css" %}" />{% endblock %}
+{% endcomment %}
+
 {% block heading %}{% endblock %}
 
+
+
 {% block bodyattrs %}class="tundra eventDetail"{% endblock %}
 
 
 {% block jscript %}
-{% load static %}
+
 
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static "tablesaw/dist/tablesaw.css" %}" />
 <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="{% static "tablesaw/dist/tablesaw.js" %}"></script>