CSS and Netscape 2

[MarkBarrett]

I am fairly new to CSS but on a steep learning curve.
What I have done to date looks fine in Internet Explorer

When I view it in Netscape Navigator 7.1 it's not recognising any of the CSS code.

What can that be?

I would really appreciate your help on this.

MB

 

[theboyhope]

Let's see the code, mate.

 

[MarkBarrett]

I made the simplest example I could.

http://www.aboutnelson.co.uk/cv/NNTest.htm

There should be a red background and a cell with a white border. Both show in IE but only the background in NN.

I wonder now if it is just a problem with borders.

Again - appreciate any advice.

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[deecee]

instead of .1 try td.1

<signature>
sometime you just gotta say &quot;WHAT THE @#*% !!&quot;
</signature>

 

[Vragabond]

I played with your code a bit. Looks like my Mozilla ignores the css class if it is just a number. Change it to a letter, word or a letter and number and it should work.

Hope that helps.

 

[ChrisHunt]

Delving around in

http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-CSS1#appendix-b

we find that class names have to start with a letter, optionally followed by other letters, numbers or hyphens. NS is more fussy about standards compliance than IE, which is why it doesn't work.

I'd strongly advise you to pick more meaningful names for classes anyway- sure, it's more typing, but you'll find it a lot easier to maintain your site when you come back to it.

-- Chris Hunt

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http://www.napitalia.org.uk

http://www.leicesteryha.org.uk

 

[MarkBarrett]

Thanks very much to all of you - you solved the problem.

Going back to one of my manuals I see that it says:

&quot;CSS doesn't permit class or id values to begin with a number (unless you throw in an escape character), and thus some browsers won't recognise a class or id name that starts with a number&quot;

Here is my test page now corrected.

http://www.aboutnelson.co.uk/cv/NNtest.htm

Now on to something more challenging!!

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