final LayoutStyle initialStyle = getInitialStyle();
final LayoutStyle style = element.getLayoutStyle();
// Stage 0: Initialize with the built-in defaults
// The copy will return false if it couldn't do the copy automatically
if (style.copyFrom(initialStyle) == false)
{
// manually copy all styles from the initial style-set..
for (int i = 0; i < keys.length; i++)
{
final StyleKey key = keys[i];