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Netscape 6.1 ignores @import!

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Sensibilium

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Okay, this is complicated (it seems that way to me anyway).

After spending ages reading up at w3c regarding Transitional HTML 4.01 and CSS, I redesigned my site to use CSS for positioning of elements, removing the need for nested-tables.

is my site, which if looked at using IE5.5 it displays the design perfectly, as it does when using Opera 5, and I seem to remember that the design displayed correctly in Netscape 6.

But with Netscape 6.1, it displays the page like Netscape 4.7! Effectively ignoring the @import command I use to stop non-compliant browsers from using that particular stylesheet! I've spent the last week trying to solve this, without luck.

Any ideas people? Thanks in advance :) Ahdkaw
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Could you post your code? Most likly its a syntax error in your css.

Try

<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<!--
@import &quot;myfile.css&quot;;
-->
</style>

I use this technique all the time and it works just fine for me in Netscape 6.1

(might be the semicolon -- have had that problem before. Also watch out on which kinds of slashes you use in the url, Netscape won/'t accept anything but /) ===
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Okay, here's the code after trying what you said:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN&quot;
&quot;<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Sensibilium; Where the sensible gather...</TITLE>
<LINK rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;/css/standard.css&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; />
<STYLE type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<!--
@import &quot;/css/realstyles.css&quot;;
-->
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT language=&quot;JavaScript&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;/includes/stdfunctions.js&quot;></SCRIPT>

<META http-equiv=&quot;Content-Language&quot; content=&quot;en-gb&quot;>
<META http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=iso-8859-1&quot;>
<META name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;Ordo Templi Sensibilium. Purveyors of the odd. Plenty of articles and much more.&quot;>
<META name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;ahdkaw, AHDKAW, Ahdkaw, Sensibilium, Ordo, Templi, Zeno, ZENO, zeno, zetetic,
ahdli, kawshus, spasm, matneee, legion, baal, nolef, arrow, miscellania, miscallania, miscellanea, heads, monkeys, chaos,
discordia, forum, discussion, links, OTS, ots, gumbo, profane, dog&quot;>
</HEAD>

I still get the same problem. ~maybe~ it has something to do with having two different style files? Ahdkaw
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Sometime NN doesn't read your &quot;/&quot; before the reference as in: href=&quot;/css/standard.css&quot;
Try instead to write: href=&quot;css/standard.css&quot;

And I don't understand your this &quot;/>&quot; in the end of this line: <LINK rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;/css/standard.css&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; />
Is that right?

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I've tried:
href=&quot;css/realstyles.css&quot;

NN6 gets the standard.css file without a problem, but it's realstyles.css that's being ignored.

The &quot; />&quot; at the end of the LINK tag is part of the standards of HTML4.01, and makes no difference if removed.

Below is the modified code so far:

<LINK rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;css/standard.css&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<STYLE type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
<!--
@import &quot;css/realstyles.css&quot;;
-->
</style>

Even IE6 suffers the same problem apparently... Ahdkaw
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I'm also concerned that it might have something to do with having multiple CSS files... But I don't really know for sure, as without BOTH css files the design will not come through...

I'm on the verge of merging the CSS files, and just ignoring NS4.7- & IE3- altogether... Ahdkaw
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Yeah its the multiple css files. Since IE6 doesn't do this either, and you are invoking IE6 in standards mode by putting the url in your doctype -- its a standards problem. Try putting the <style> tag before the link and see if that helps. ===
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Right, I got the little b*st*rd! =)

Apparently it has very little to do with multiple stylesheets, although NS6 & IE6 are a little buggy with them.

The actual problem was case-sensivity. In IE5.5 and Opera 5, the CSS IS NOT case-sensitive, but NS6, and also IE6, ARE case-sensitive.

For example:
My first DIV on my page is called as so -
Code: 
<DIV ID=&quot;LogoTop&quot;>Logo</DIV>
But in my CSS file it was described as -
Code: 
#LOGOTOP

NS6 & IE6 will NOT realise that this is the same ID as that called from the page, even though IE5.5 & Opera 5 will.

To fix this then, all I had to do was edit my CSS file (I have now incorporated both CSS files into one), to the following:
Code: 
#LogoTop

So, let that be a warning to everyone (myself included), make sure your CSS settings are case-sensitive at all times. Ahdkaw
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Thats correct behavior -- CSS is case sensitive. ===
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