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I would like to define in my template some css styles and for that the html code will contain curly braces. Eg.

BODY * {
font-size: 12px;
font-family:arial;
}

The problem is that curly braces have a special meaning and they (the braces) as well as everything between the braces dissapear, leading to the following result

BODY *

which does not define much of a style.