206621 - php as external css invalid in xhtml doctype

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123674

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[x jeremy jarratt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

an external stylesheet written in PHP, and with a PHP extension, does not work
when the doctype is any variant of xhtml. these stylesheets seem to be
completely ignored.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a dynamic stylesheet in PHP, with a .php extension
2. link to the external stylesheet using either LINK or @import
3. use doctype xhtml (any variant)

Actual Results:  
stylesheets are fnorded and ignored.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have displayed the page WITH the styles specified

this appears to also happen in Firebird and other versions of Mozilla and Netscape.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

jeremy, is it a CSS stylesheet, and is it being served with the correct text/css
MIME type?

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

In standards compliance mode (from the doctype), CSS files must have a MIME type
of text/css.  Othererwise they are ignored (and a message is written to the
Tools, Web Development, JavaScript Console window)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123674 ***

Comment 3

[x jeremy jarratt]

thanks...
i put the following at the top of my php css files:
header("content-type:text/css"); 

but, owing to the fact that i am a certified idiot, i didn't wrap it in php
delimiters ("<?" and "?>" for those just joining us). D'OH!! it does appear to
work now. thanks again, and sorry for duplicating!