Sent by Jurgen Haug on 9 October 2003 22:10
Hello Tony,
Thursday, October 9, 2003, 9:30:05 PM, you wrote:
> 1) It seems that the placement of the <base href....> tag that I am using in my
> <head>...</head> section must be placed **after** the the <style>....</section>
> in order for the imported CSS to take effect. I can't seem to find anything on
> the web that indicates that this is required.
> 2) Once I put the <base href....> tag after the <style>...</style> section, the
> imported CSS works fine in Netscape 7.1 but **does not** work in IE 5.5 after
> you reload the page after the initial display.
> 3) If, however, I introduce a <link href="dummy.css" rel="stylesheet"
> type="text/css"> with nothing in it, then the CSS also works in IE 5.5.
> I have commented out the <link....> tag to demonstrate the problem.
the definition of the BASE command says explicitly that it has to come BEFORE any element that
refers to an external source. Your style is refering to an external source (the .css file), so your
BASE has to come BEFORE that!
here is a source for it:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#idx-base_URI
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Best regards,
Jurgen
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