Wicked Firefox CSS problem

[tagdance]

Hello friends,

I have a very interesting problem with my css files and firefox -
I guess !

Listen:

I have set up my new website www.tagdance.de
For testing purpose I have mirrored this site under
www.suedafrika-kapstadt.com, where it looks lovely with all browsers.
When finished I took the whole site and uploaded it to www.tagdance.de.

Its ok with IE and Opera. But with firefox - no css !
The page is blank - just plain text - no formats !
BUT: I have an extension for firefox (cssedit). When I switch on the
extension-view to display the css-code - ups - there you go - the page
is reloaded with the correct formats and all is fine!
When I turn the css editor in firefox off - my design dies again.

Im not shure weather this is a css, firefox or server-problem, as I
have other sites with css on this machine and they work well.

I could bet no one knows an answer !

PS: It works when I load this css file from a different location.
Strange - isn't it ?

Thanks for any ideas.
Mark

[Els]

ta******@gmail.com wrote:

Hello friends,
Have we met? ;-)
I have a very interesting problem with my css files and firefox -
I guess !

Listen:
Reading..
I have set up my new website www.tagdance.de
For testing purpose I have mirrored this site under
www.suedafrika-kapstadt.com, where it looks lovely with all browsers.
When finished I took the whole site and uploaded it to www.tagdance.de.

Its ok with IE and Opera. But with firefox - no css !
The page is blank - just plain text - no formats !
BUT: I have an extension for firefox (cssedit). When I switch on the
extension-view to display the css-code - ups - there you go - the page
is reloaded with the correct formats and all is fine!
When I turn the css editor in firefox off - my design dies again.
I've recently seen that on a site - forgot which one though. Only
happened with the background though, not the rest of the CSS.
Im not shure weather this is a css, firefox or server-problem, as I
have other sites with css on this machine and they work well.

I could bet no one knows an answer !
Yet ;-)
PS: It works when I load this css file from a different location.
Strange - isn't it ?

Thanks for any ideas.

What happens if you take the <!-- and --> comment indicators out from
the style block?

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[JP. Baker]

In article <11*********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
<ta******@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello friends,

I have a very interesting problem with my css files and firefox -
I guess !

Listen:

I have set up my new website www.tagdance.de
For testing purpose I have mirrored this site under
www.suedafrika-kapstadt.com, where it looks lovely with all browsers.
When finished I took the whole site and uploaded it to www.tagdance.de.

Its ok with IE and Opera. But with firefox - no css !

Javascript console:

Error: The stylesheet http://www.tagdance.de/tagdance.css was not
loaded because its MIME type, "text/xml", is not "text/css".

John
--
John P Baker

[Chris Sharman]

JP. Baker wrote:

In article <11*********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
<ta******@gmail.com> wrote:

Javascript console:

Error: The stylesheet http://www.tagdance.de/tagdance.css was not
loaded because its MIME type, "text/xml", is not "text/css".

Yes.
Solution - have your hosting provider serve css files correctly - this
needs you to convince them that they're wrong ...
Workaround (failing the above) downgrade your doctype to make firefox
more forgiving (quirks mode), or find a better host.

Chris

[tagdance]

Chris Sharman schrieb:

JP. Baker wrote:

In article <11*********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
<ta******@gmail.com> wrote:

Javascript console:

Error: The stylesheet http://www.tagdance.de/tagdance.css was not
loaded because its MIME type, "text/xml", is not "text/css".
Yes.
Solution - have your hosting provider serve css files correctly -

this needs you to convince them that they're wrong ...
Workaround (failing the above) downgrade your doctype to make firefox more forgiving (quirks mode), or find a better host.

Chris

YES YES YES Boys ! Thanx a lot. The mime-thing was the deal !
The hint with the crappy host was fine (the host is me - its my server
- so it was easy convincing him)
Its one of my first machines running win2000 and oreilly website.
Changed it into text/css and now its working.
Thank god I dont have to install a browser-switch and redesign 1200
pages for firefox ;-)

Thank you all - Mark

[tagdance]

Hi Els,

thank you for your comments and suggestions. I have tried it out. Also
with no brackets - no go.
It was the server-side mime-type thing.

But thank you very much.

PS: yes we've met. It was in a newsgroup about css - wasn't it ?

;-)

Thank you again Mark

[Els]

ta******@gmail.com wrote:

PS: yes we've met. It was in a newsgroup about css - wasn't it ?

;-)

eh.. that would be /this/ newsgroup then <g>

Certainly wasn't as "tagdance" then? Quite difficult to recognize
people on a text based medium if they change their handle :-)

--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
Now playing: Jackson Brown - Load Out/Stay

[PGScannell]

Original post paraphrased

> I have a very interesting problem with my css files and firefox -
> I guess !
>
>
> Its ok with IE and Opera. But with firefox - no css !
> The page is blank - just plain text - no formats !
> BUT: I have an extension for firefox (cssedit). When I switch on the
> extension-view to display the css-code - ups - there you go - the page
> is reloaded with the correct formats and all is fine!
> When I turn the css editor in firefox off - my design dies again.[/color]

I am having the same problem. Does Firefox have a different syntax for loading stylesheet files than IE???

here's the code I use in the <head> section:

asdfsfsfsd

This works fine in IE -- has for years! I am just learning about Firefox that it is becoming a very popular browser. I was told that my website won't work with it. I tried myself and everyone is right! It doesn't work. In fact, none of the stylesheets are loading.

Here's the URL: (non-framed:) http://www.kofcri.org/testMenus.asp
Framed: http://www.kofcri.org

here's how I load the stylesheets:

<LINK REL ="StyleSheet" HREF="StyleSheets\filename.css" TYPE="text/css" media="all">

I have even tried the style of loading utilizing @import

I have also tried the / character instead of the \ character in the HREF portion.

Thanks,
Paul