Can't View Linked CSS Pages

[PaulBricker]

In this thread, thread215-844105 there are two links

http://www.uniquesolutions.com.au/ms/metro.css

http://www.uniquesolutions.com.au/ms/index.html

When I click on the first link all I see is a little icon up in the left corner of my browser window. I have no problem viewing the second link. I also have no problem viewing the Source code using View...Source on my menu bar. I am using IE 6.0.
Anyone have any thoughts why I can't view linked css files?

Thanks

Paul

 

[jmaddone]

There is nothing to really look at in the css file in browser. It tells how other pages that include the css(cascading style sheet) are displayed. You can download the css file to disk and open it with a text editor (notepad, wordpad, etc.) or any web development application (InterDev, .NET, Dreamweaver, etc.).

 

[PaulBricker]

Thanks for the reply. When going to this page

http://www.csszengarden.com/

you will see a link that says

"View this Designs CSS"

When I click on the link it takes me to this page

http://www.csszengarden.com/001/001.css

When I view this page (on my office machine) using Netscape, I can view the CSS. When I view this page using IE 6.0, all I see if a small icon in the upper left hand corner of my screen(has a small square, circle and triangle in it). If I right click on the icon and go to properties, the Protocol property is HyperText Transfer Protocol and the Type property is Cascading Style Sheet Document. But I can't see anything except that small icon. IE is my default browser and I would like to be able to view these links without having to open Netscape. I can see them on my machine at home but I haven't been able to figure out why I can't see them on my machine at work. I don't want to have to download a bunch of files and then delete them just to view some CSS.
Any thoughts??

Thanks

Paul

 

[jmaddone]

There is nothing to really show in IE for a css. It is just code that tells how the text is supposed to be displayed, but there is no actual text to be displayed. On my machine it automatically opens InterDev (Web Development Program) and shows me the code. If you would like to view the code with a specific program (Netscape, Notepad, Interdev etc.) then you can go in to Windows Explorer and click on Tools-->Folder Options (in XP, maybe different with previous versions) and click the File Types tab. Scroll down to CSS file type, and change the program that it is supposed to open with to whatever program you want it to open with. When you click on the link in IE now, it should open that specific program.

Hope that helps.

 

[PaulBricker]

Well, I thought changing the File Type might do it. It showed Notepad as my application to open text/css files, but nothing was working. I changed it to try opening those files with Evrsoft's 1st Page 2000. That didn't help. I'm not sure why I can't view the CSS files, it just doesn't make sense. I understand what you are saying about showing CSS files in IE, but the fact is if I open that link in csszengarden in Netscape, it desplays the file in Netscape's browser window, not Notepad or Evrsoft or InterDev and I would expect that the same would be true with IE until you told it to open it with something else (or some app like InterDev changes the setting as part of the install). But inspite of all that, I still just get my little icon no matter what I seem to do. In the File Type Action property, the only action I show is "open" (without the quotes. I assume that's all I would need to just open a file.
I do appreciate the help and am willing to try whatever else you might think will help. Any other thoughts??

Paul