CSS Help, Please

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Feigning erudition, ronnie gauthier wrote:
% I just looked at this again and do you have the <style> tags in the external
% file??

Yes. If I put the <style> tags into the HTML file, I don't get this
behavior, but I don't want to have to do that -- it ruins one of the
nicest features of a stylesheet, having it in an external file shared
by multiple HTML documents.

% >On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:41:15 -0500 - kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote the following
% >Re: CSS Help, Please
% >
% >>So, I was playing with CSS on a web page. If I use the following
% >>style.css file, I don't get the body settings I want (as viewed
% >>in Mozilla 1.2.1):
% >>
% >><style type="text/css">
% >>  body {
% >>    color: black; 
% >>    background-image:url(small-grid.gif);
% >>    margin-left: 10%; 
% >>    margin-right: 10%; 
% >>  }
% >></style>
% >>
% >>But, if I use the following, the body settings *do* work (again, as
% >>viewed in Mozilla 1.2.1):
% >>
% >><style type="text/css">
% >>  body { ; } 
% >>  body {
% >>    color: black; 
% >>    background-image:url(small-grid.gif);
% >>    margin-left: 10%; 
% >>    margin-right: 10%; 
% >>  }
% >></style>
% >>
% >>The browser appears to ignore the first body statement, so using
% >>what amounts to an empty or null body statement works around the bug.
% >>Is this a Mozilla misfeature or something stupendously simple that I
% >>am overlooking?
% >>
% >>Thanks,
% >>
% >>Kurt
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