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Firefox cannot read secure stylesheet with XHTML doctype

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xjs

xjs

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Hi all,

I have been searching the web looking for a solution and can not find the answer I need. I have an XHTML web page coded with an XHTML strict doctype that references a style sheet on a secure server. IE6 renders this page as expected but Firefox 2.0.0.3 seems to ignore the stylesheet. Firefox doesn't ignore the stylesheet if the doctype is removed.

I need the doctype in place because some styles don't render correctly without it there.

The code starts off as:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN' '
<html xmlns=" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us">
<head>
<title>Title Here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<style type="text/css">@import " </style>

I would appreciate any insight or solution to this, thanks.
 
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Have you tried using the <link> tag to pull in your external stylesheet?

Here is an example of the syntax of the <link> tag:

Code: 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="general.css" media="screen" />


[monkey][snake] <.
 
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monksnake,

I did try that before and had the same problem. Thanks for the suggestion.

xjs
 
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Without knowing what your page looks like, I can throw this suggestion up.

Since your page works correctly without a DOCTYPE in FF, perhaps you have some invalid XHTML in your code that is causing your styles to be ignored.

[monkey][snake] <.
 
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I had checked that too. I made sure that the page validated as XHTML strict and the problem still occured.

I also tried an XHTML transitional doctype and had the same results. The problem doesn't happen on an unsecure server.

I'm not sure what else to try.
 
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