diff --git a/etemplate/js/et2_DOMWidget.js b/etemplate/js/et2_DOMWidget.js
index dd23d49573..9ed116f4da 100644
--- a/etemplate/js/et2_DOMWidget.js
+++ b/etemplate/js/et2_DOMWidget.js
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ var et2_DOMWidget = et2_widget.extend(et2_IDOMNode, {
 			"type": "dimension",
 			"default": et2_no_init,
 			"description": "Height of the element in pixels, percentage or 'auto'"
+		},
+		"class": {
+			"name": "CSS Class",
+			"type": "string",
+			"default": et2_no_init,
+			"description": "CSS Class which is applied to the dom element of this node"
 		}
 	},
 
@@ -244,6 +250,20 @@ var et2_DOMWidget = et2_widget.extend(et2_IDOMNode, {
 		{
 			$j(node).css("height", _value);
 		}
+	},
+
+	set_class: function(_value) {
+		var node = this.getDOMNode(this);
+		if (node)
+		{
+			if (this["class"])
+			{
+				$j(node).removeClass(this["class"]);
+			}
+			$j(node).addClass(_value);
+		}
+
+		this["class"] = _value;
 	}
 });
 
diff --git a/etemplate/js/et2_description.js b/etemplate/js/et2_description.js
index f34264e37a..9d3681ab76 100644
--- a/etemplate/js/et2_description.js
+++ b/etemplate/js/et2_description.js
@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ var et2_description = et2_baseWidget.extend({
 			this.span.attr("for", this.options.label_for);
 		}
 
-		// Create an array which contains the parts of the text with links around
-		// it
 		et2_insertLinkText(this._parseText(), this.span[0], this.options.extra_link_target);
 
 		this.setDOMNode(this.span[0]);
diff --git a/etemplate/js/test/et2_test_description.xet b/etemplate/js/test/et2_test_description.xet
index 7a95eb4ff0..918d0946af 100644
--- a/etemplate/js/test/et2_test_description.xet
+++ b/etemplate/js/test/et2_test_description.xet
@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@
 		<description value="This is only a test" font_style="italic" statustext="This is only an italic label!"/>
 		<description value="Welcome to http://www.egroupware.org/, if you have any question feel free to write a mail to mailto:info@egroupware.org" activate_links="true" />
 		<description value="Go to the EGroupware homepage" href="http://www.egroupware.org/" extra_link_target="_popup"/>
+		<description class="eyecancer" value="Amazing!"/>
 	</vbox>
+	<styles>
+		.eyecancer {
+			font-size: 18pt;
+			color: red;
+			text-shadow: 0 0 10px red; 
+			text-decoration: blink;
+			border: 5px groove red;
+			padding: 10px;
+			width: 120px;
+			text-align: center;
+			display: inline-block;
+			border-radius: 25px;
+			-moz-border-radius: 25px;
+			margin: 30px;
+		}
+	</styles>
 </overlay>