253860 - When the "title" attribute is used within a <link> tag calling a style sheet the sheet is ignored.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Jim Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

The following tag works (on my site, www.depressepdress.com):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../Assets/Styles/Standard.css" />

However this fails (both examples are valid HTML):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../Assets/Styles/Standard.css"
title="Standard" />

The failure is complete: no style information contained in the external sheet is
applied to the document.

I'm not sure if the position of the title tag is at fault or if the problem
occurs with other uncommon (but still legal) attributes of the <link> tag.

I am also calling multiple style sheets with the link tag - that may have
something to do with it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load any page successfully calling an external style sheet with the <link> tag.
2. Load that page - the style in the external sheet should be applied.
3. Add a "title" attribute to the <link> tag calling a style sheet.
3. Refresh the page.

Actual Results:  
The style in the external sheet are not applied to the display.

Expected Results:  
Apply the styles.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This needs a URL or testcase that shows the problem.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Using separate titles creates multiple sets of alternate stylesheets, only one
of which is the preferred set.  See the HTML 4 spec, and also note the
stylesheet switching UI in the lower left corner of the Firefox window.