Closed Bug 190652 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Doctype declaration HTML 4.01 renders external stylesheet useless

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Platform:
PowerPC
Mac System 9.x
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: donmorris, Assigned: dbaron)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> ... <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="blog.css"> The external stylesheet is ignored with this doctype declaration. Change the declaration to "...HTML 4.0..." and the stylesheet is used. Interestingly, the problem only occurs with the file from the remote server. A local file with the problem declaration uses the stylesheet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Change doctype to HTML 4.0 2. View as local file -- stylesheet is used 3. Upload to server 4. View http://caralynn.com -- stylesheet is used 5. Change doctype to HTML 4.01 6. View as local file -- stylesheet is used 7. Upload to server 8. View http://caralynn.com -- stylesheet is ignored Actual Results: No background images for table cells were loaded, colors and fonts, etc., specified in stylesheet were not used. Expected Results: Mozilla should have used the external stylesheet. If the styles are embedded using <style></style> tags, the styles are used.
Yes, this is the way it works. See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/ for an explanation. See also the Tools, Web Development, JavaScript Console where the error message appears: that the stylesheet was ignored because its MIME type was not text/css (but rather text/html). Once the MIME type is fixed, Mozilla will process the stylesheet in standards mode. Right now it is only processed in quirks mode.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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