275656 - style sheet not loaded for JSP page under tomcat

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ulrich Hilger]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

I try to display a JSP page with a link to a cascading style sheet. The page
file is C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.3.2\webapps\examples\jsp\page.jsp It contains a link
tag as follows <link rel="stylesheet" href="format.css" type="text/css"> and the
file format.css is in the same directory as file page.jsp

When I open the page with Firefox using URL
http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/page.jsp?id=74 it displays the page contents
properly but without the styles from the referenced style sheet.

When opening the page with the same URL under IE 6.0 it is displayed normally
with styles.

What can I do to fix that problem?

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you see an error in the JS Console or Do you know if the .css if served with
the correct mime-type ?

Comment 2

[Ulrich Hilger]

with the help of someone in the Java developers forums I found out that it is
simply a missing setting of tomcat. It is not a bug. To get it to work there
must be a web.xml file in the appropriate directory of tomcat with the following
entry 

    <mime-mapping>
    	<extension>css</extension>
    	<mime-type>text/css</mime-type>
    </mime-mapping>

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

as I expected, your server sent the wrong mime-type.
You can see this error in the Javascript Console...

Comment 4

[Ulrich Hilger]

yes, Matti, you were right, thanks for your help