Hi folks
I want to enhance my website to distinguish "external" hyperlinks from
"internal" ones.
With that aim, I've written the following two small files for testing
purposes:
C:\styles.css:
.extlink {
background: url(http://tc2.atspace.com/extlink.gif) no-repeat
right middle;
padding-right: 12px; }
C:\test.htm:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="styles.cs s" TYPE="text/css">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<A class=extlink href=zzz>WHATEV ER</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
I want to open C:\test.htm directly from my hard disk, to see how the
background image looks, before I change my actual website.
Problems:
(1) IE6 only displays the background image if I remove the DOCTYPE
declaration. If I retain that declaration, it does not display that
image, even though it still obeys the other aspects of the 'extlink'
style. Adding or removing an IE6 "mark of the web" (MOTW) has no affect
on this, one way or the other.
(2) FireFox 1.5 does not display the image at all - with or without the
DOCTYPE declaration.
Questions:
(1) Why does the DOCTYPE stop IE6 displaying the image?
(2) Why doesn't FF display the image at all?
(3) What should I do to resolve this, to enable local testing of the
files on my hard disk?
I realize that it will probably all work fine, when I copy all of the
relevant files to my web host. But I want to know why it *doesn't* work
fine when I run them locally on my PC. Generally I like to test my
changes locally, before I copy them to my web host.
TIA,
TC (MVP MSAccess)
http://tc2.atspace.com
