Sent by Sauyet, Scott (OTS-HAR) on 26 September 2002 16:04
> = Ian Hickson [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
>> = Scott Sauyet [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
>> <style ...>
>> p {color: red}
>> @import "next.css"
>> </style>
>
> That is, for the record, invalid. @import rules must come before any
> declarations.
Oops, that's right. It is. From [1] we can read "Any @import rules must
precede all rule sets in a style sheet." The validator [2] does catch
this, reporting a parse error.
Mozilla 1.1 and Opera 6.01 properly ignore an @import after other rules.
IE6-win does not. I put together two simple tests at
http://tinyurl.com/1nga
and http://tinyurl.com/1ngb.
In the first, the @import comes before other rules, and all three tested
browsers work correctly. In the second, the @import comes afterwards, and
IE6-win overrides it with other rules in the stylesheet. But for rules
which are not overridden, it does use the ones from the @import-ed sheet.
All tests were on Win2K Pro.
I hope I've made up for the bad info.
-- Scott Sauyet
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#at-import
[2] http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
