Newbie: IE won't load linked stylesheet?

johnnygeo · Aug 19, 2003

I made a nice little webpage with a linked stylesheet and it works fine in Mozilla Firebird, but IE is ignoring the stylesheet and I can't see what's wrong. Here's what the code looks like:

<html>
<head>
<title>IE .css test</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css">
</head>
<body>
unformatted text<br><br>
<mystyle>formatted text</mystyle>
</body>
</html>

And the stylesheet contains:

mystyle {
color: #ff0000;
font-size: 20.0pt;
}

Again, this works fine in Mozilla, with the second line in large red text. But in IE, all the text is unformatted. What have I done wrong?

Thanks,
Stu Greene

MrBelfry · Aug 19, 2003

either this is some funky technique for developing your own html tags or: <mystyle>formatted text</mystyle>
should read <span class="mystyle">formatted text</span>. Make your style look like this also:

Code:

.mystyle {
  color: #ff0000;
  font-size: 20.0pt;
}

Styles need to be applied to existing HTML tags. You cannot create new HTML elements unless you work for th W3C

MrBelfry

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