CSS rendering problem in Netscape? | WPDFD.com Forums

Mpj said:

07/06/04, 188 58 2004 2004:%i:1089104281 04:58:01

Netscape and Firefox cannot seem to find/interpret/display the CSS file for a site of mine. This was my first 'pro' site that went live over 18 months ago. It was built with a mix of tables and CSS and everything worked fine when I was testing using Netscape 6.x so long ago.

Even stranger, when I open the html pages on my hard drive using Netscape or Firefox, they find and display the css perfectly. I'm using relative links and the file structures on my hard drive and the servier are exactly the same.

The css displays fine in IE 6 (Windows) , Safari and IE 5 (Mac).

I'm linking to an external style sheet using the code:

The site thats giving me this problem is:
http://www.proactive-response.com

Any help or advice will be greatfully appreciated.

Joe Gillespie said:

07/06/04, 188 24 2004 2004:%i:1089113096 07:24:56

I can't see anything wrong with the syntax. Try changing the name of the style.css file to pastyle.css. It might be that those browsers don't like the filename being a 'reserved' word. You could also try moving the css file out into the same directory as the HTML so the link would be just "pastyle.css".

The W3C Validator is complaining about an encoding issue but I don't think that is the problem.

Mpj said:

07/06/04, 188 39 2004 2004:%i:1089113950 07:39:10

Thanks Joe, I'll try your suggestions. It's strange because I use exactly the same file name and file stucture on a different site and the css displays fine. Maybe it is that encoding issue afterall...

Mpj said:

07/06/04, 188 24 2004 2004:%i:1089116694 08:24:54

OK ... so I've tried renaming the css file, moving the css file into the same folder as the html pages and I've tried removing the conflicting text encoding. Netscape is still the same - no css.

Any other ideas greatfully appreciated.

Joe Gillespie said:

07/06/04, 188 43 2004 2004:%i:1089117800 08:43:20

In that case, I would suspect a server configuration problem. Can you try it on a different server that you know works?

Mpj said:

07/06/04, 188 58 2004 2004:%i:1089118693 08:58:13

Macs are great - apache server build in! Server configuration might be the problem ... I've been trying to pursuade my client for over 6 months to change hosting provider, this might pursuade him ...

Joe Gillespie said:

07/06/04, 188 59 2004 2004:%i:1089118747 08:59:07

Yes, If I try to validate the CSS at

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

it throws up an unknown mime type. That's your problem. Speak to your ISP.

Mpj said:

07/06/04, 188 14 2004 2004:%i:1089119689 09:14:49

Just found the same problem, thanks Joe.

Mpj said:

07/06/04, 188 25 2004 2004:%i:1089120353 09:25:53

Just found the same problem, thanks Joe.