nested style sheets

[Charles Crume]

Hello;

I'm new here, so please excuse me if this posting is not appropriate.

I have a basic style sheet "sheet1" for all my pages, and a secondary style
sheet "sheet2" that overrides a couple of things for some pages. I have the
following stylesheet links in the head section of a page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

This works just fine in IE, but not in Mozilla or Opera. I have searched
google, but have not found an answer.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

TIA.

Charles...


---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/04

[Christoph Paeper]

*Charles Crume* <[e-mail]>:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

This works just fine in IE, but not in Mozilla or Opera.

You have to use identical 'title' attributes to achieve what you want.

--
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
Hansell B. Duckett

[Brian]

Charles Crume wrote:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

This works just fine in IE, but not in Mozilla or Opera.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

Not without a url. Wild guess: the .css files are not served as
text/css as they are supposed to be. But new versions of Mozilla/Opera
break the spec and sniff the content for css, so that may not be the
case. And that's all the guessing I'm prepared to do.

--
Brian (remove ".invalid" to email me)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

[Shawn K. Quinn]

Charles Crume wrote:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

This works just fine in IE, but not in Mozilla or Opera. I have searched
google, but have not found an answer.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

The fact that IE has more bugs than an exterminator's hit list.

Seriously, any time other browsers do the same thing, and IE does something
different, that's usually indicative of a bug in IE. As another poster
alluded, it's likely your CSS isn't being served as text/css; if it is not,
then it's not CSS as far as a standards compliant browser is concerned.

--
Shawn K. Quinn

[Mark Tranchant]

Charles Crume wrote:

Hello;

I'm new here, so please excuse me if this posting is not appropriate.

I have a basic style sheet "sheet1" for all my pages, and a secondary style
sheet "sheet2" that overrides a couple of things for some pages. I have the
following stylesheet links in the head section of a page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

This works just fine in IE, but not in Mozilla or Opera. I have searched
google, but have not found an answer.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

Your different stylesheet titles are causing the real browsers to
interpret them as alternate stylesheets. You'll probably find a little
icon at the LHS of Mozilla's status bar which will allow you to choose
one or the other.

--
Mark.

[kchayka]

Mark Tranchant wrote:

Charles Crume wrote:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

Your different stylesheet titles are causing the real browsers to
interpret them as alternate stylesheets. You'll probably find a little
icon at the LHS of Mozilla's status bar which will allow you to choose
one or the other.

In what mozilla build do you see this icon?

--
Reply email address is a bottomless spam bucket.
Please reply to the group so everyone can share.

[Brian]

kchayka wrote:

Mark Tranchant wrote:

Your different stylesheet titles are causing the real browsers to
interpret them as alternate stylesheets. You'll probably find a
little icon at the LHS of Mozilla's status bar which will allow
you to choose one or the other.

In what mozilla build do you see this icon?

I think it's unique to Firefox. I have it in Firefox 0.8, but I've
never seen it in Mozilla's "Seamonkey" application suite.

--
Brian (remove ".invalid" to email me)
http://www.tsmchughs.com/

[Gus Richter]

Charles Crume wrote:

Hello;

I'm new here, so please excuse me if this posting is not appropriate.

I have a basic style sheet "sheet1" for all my pages, and a secondary style
sheet "sheet2" that overrides a couple of things for some pages. I have the
following stylesheet links in the head section of a page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="sheet1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

This works just fine in IE, but not in Mozilla or Opera. I have searched
google, but have not found an answer.

Can anyone explain what I am missing?

To combine multiple/partial style sheets into one, set the TITLE
attribute, taking one and the same value to the LINK element. The
combined style will apply as a preferred style, e.g.:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" title="comb">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet2.css" title="comb">

--
Gus

[Dave Patton]

kchayka <us****@c-net.us> wrote in news:2m************@uni-berlin.de:

Mark Tranchant wrote:

Charles Crume wrote:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css"
title="sheet1"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="sheet2.css" title="sheet2">

Your different stylesheet titles are causing the real browsers to
interpret them as alternate stylesheets. You'll probably find a
little icon at the LHS of Mozilla's status bar which will allow you
to choose one or the other.

In what mozilla build do you see this icon?

It's in Firefox. In Mozilla, you can use
'View > Use Style' to accomplish the same thing,
switching stylesheets.

--
Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

[Charles Crume]

"Charles Crume" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:GC**************@fe2.columbus.rr.com...

I have a basic style sheet "sheet1" for all my pages, and a secondary style sheet "sheet2" that overrides a couple of things for some pages. I have the following stylesheet links in the head section of a page:

[snip]

Thanks to all!!

The problem was, as pointed out by some, that I was using two different
titles. I am using "Cascading Style Sheets - The Definitive Guide" (c) 2000
as a reference and misunderstood the information on page 13 regarding titles
and alternate style sheets.

Many thanks for the help.

Charles...
---
Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/04

[Stan Brown]

"Charles Crume" <[e-mail]> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
Version: 6.0.726 / Virus Database: 481 - Release Date: 7/22/04

Any way you can delete this ad from your signature?

(And you're not sending mail, you're posting articles.)

Anyway, even as an ad it's silly: anybody who is stupid enough to
believe a statement, in an e-mail, that the e-mail is virus free --
well, they deserve what they get.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
2.1 changes: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/