body selector not registering in ff

**Steve Pugh** · Jul 21 '05, 01:01 AM

Re: body selector not registering in ff

Merlin Fradley <merlin.fradley @btinternet.com > wrote:
[color=blue]
>I am re doing a friends site using css, and have a problem with the
>formating applied to the body not registering in firefox. It works fine
>in IE and Opera, the only other browsers I've tried it in.
>Page in question is here:
>
>http://www.stgeorgearmoury.co.uk/dev/index.html
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.[/color]

You have HTML in your CSS file. Take out the <style> tags and the HTML
comments. Comments in CSS are of the form /* comment */

Steve

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**Jan Roland Eriksson** · Jul 21 '05, 01:01 AM

Re: body selector not registering in ff

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:42:26 +0000, Merlin Fradley
<merlin.fradley @btinternet.com > wrote:
[color=blue]
>I am re doing a friends site using css, and have a problem with the
>formating applied to the body not registering in firefox. It works fine
>in IE and Opera, the only other browsers I've tried it in.
>Page in question is here:
>
>http://www.stgeorgearmoury.co.uk/dev/index.html
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>
>PS The original, done before I even knew what a tag was, is at
>
>http://www.stgeorgearmoury.co.uk/index.html
>
>You can see why I'm re doing it![/color]

Lose this following '->' marked stuff from your style sheet...

-> <style>
-> 
-> 

[all your CSS is here]

-> -->
-> </style>

....i.e. don't use (X)HTML markup constructs inside a style sheet file.

Comments inside CSS is through /* ... */ constructs only, and they
don't nest.

**Merlin Fradley** · Jul 21 '05, 01:01 AM

Re: body selector not registering in ff

Steve Pugh wrote:[color=blue]
> Merlin Fradley <merlin.fradley @btinternet.com > wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>I am re doing a friends site using css, and have a problem with the
>>formating applied to the body not registering in firefox. It works fine
>>in IE and Opera, the only other browsers I've tried it in.
>>Page in question is here:
>>
>>http://www.stgeorgearmoury.co.uk/dev/index.html
>>
>>Any help greatly appreciated.[/color]
>
>
> You have HTML in your CSS file. Take out the <style> tags and the HTML
> comments. Comments in CSS are of the form /* comment */
>
> Steve
>[/color]
Hey! It works! The HTML was put in by the authoring program I use
(Matrix Y2K) which I am generally happy with, and I had assumed it was
trying to make sure browsers never tried to display the css itself. I
left it in just because it was easier than deleting it I guess. Lazy! If
you look, you will find my /* comments */ are in the right format, but
thanks for the tip, and thanks for the solution! I was going to try a
div enclosing everything in the body, but that seemed a little silly.
Thanks again!

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Merlin

**Merlin Fradley** · Jul 21 '05, 01:01 AM

Re: body selector not registering in ff

>"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,[color=blue]
> I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor[/color]

PS Nice sig!

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Merlin