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First, a disclaimer: I did not create the troll. I'm moving content from an old website into a new design created by a design firm. Can anyone see any reason why the css on this page works in IE but disappears in Firefox? [link]
One clue is that it works in Firefox on my machine. This makes me suspect it's another frelling absolute path left to me by the designers.
I don't want anyone to go to a lot of trouble, but I'm feeling my sanity slip away.
Also, if anyone who knows html would like to make money doing something excruciatingly boring, e me.
Have you tried using
t link rel="stylesheet" href="../interiorstyle.css" type="text/css"
instead of the @import url thingie?
Actually, the @import was one of my desperate random efforts to make it work.
The console in Firefox claims that it didn't load it because the MIME type was text/plain, not text/css.
I love the Firefox console in a big way.
Edited to add, this looks like the web server is returning the wrong MIME type for the file, since you're declaring it as text/css. Not sure why that would happen.
I checked with the Unix command line tool wget and the Jackson server is claiming the type is text/plain, whereas buffistas claims style sheets are text/css.
You'd think that forcing the type to be text/css via the link command I used above would work, no?
It looks like I'm going to have to change .htaccess in Apache. I'm trying that now. I'm about to pound a hole in my desk with my head.
The dynamic HTML book I have claims that the type in the link tag is just telling the browser what to expect. It looks like Firefox is getting pissy about being lied to. Safari says "Like, whatever".
It seems odd to me that the web server isn't already configured to return text/css for files ending in .css.
Oh, read this for an easier way around the problem.
It seems odd to me that the web server isn't already configured to return text/css for files ending in .css.
It's not odd when your hosting company is insane. We're moving the site next week to a dedicated server. At least all the weirdness will then be our fault.
