219111 - Non-recognition of remote CSS declarations within BODY selector

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[S. E. Ward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

When CSS script (darkmatter.css) is embedded within an HTML file, all supported
declarations and selectors are recognised (ie, pretty much everything I use
except the scrollbar changes).  When the script is remote, though, none of the
BODY selector declarations are applied.  I tested the script in MIE 6.0 and
everything turned up nominal.

Other attributes, such as P- and BLOCKQUOTE-related attributes, appear as expected.

I tested this on two separate distributions of Mozilla and encountered the same
problem both times.  (I believe the other one was beta 1.4.)

The majority of CSS code was cut and pasted from an HTML-file embedded version,
which worked as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load test page for remote CSS.
Actual Results:  
Indentations appear as they ought; background is white, text is black.  Visited
links are orange (very painful on the eyes with a white background).

Expected Results:  
Background should have been black, text light yellow.  Font is supposed to be
Verdana, but is reverting to browser default.  (This was tested on two copies,
one with Verdana as the default font, the other with Times New Roman.)

Default theme.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Edited URL, 2 links in the box don´t work.
was:
http://societyhappens.com/sushi/test.html;%20http://societyhappens.com/sushi/darkmatter.css

I can´t reach:
http://societyhappens.com/sushi/test.html
http://societyhappens.com/sushi/darkmatter.css
http://societyhappens.com/

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

<style> is an HTML element! It does NOT belong in a standalone stylesheet; it's
the part of an HTML document that encapsulates embedded stylesheets. The
presence of it is breaking the first rule; remove it and you'll be OK.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Verified invalid.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ would have told you so...