No it is not ok to borrow code from my recips. In fact I'm not really all that happy that you are basically making all your recips look like my recips. Probably the link list that you do this to will not be all that happy either.
If you want the ones that you are working on to also look good in browsers that do not handle inline styles correctly on inline styles then you need to also add < font color="black" > inside of your links.