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[idrive]

Can anyone tell me why Netscape is ignoring my stylesheet? I am creating different classes of links - for example:

<a href="yellowpage.html" class="banana">Yellow Page</a>

And in the external stylesheet I would define

.banana {color : yellow;}

. I have also tried a.banana to see if tha makes a difference.

Netscape is ignoring my styles altogether - and that is Netscape 6 and 7!

For living proof, www.drivetraffic.ca/NEW for the code (I'm looking at the navigation bar at the top). If you look at the same page in IE it is very different.

Thanks! If I am coding improperly I'd like to know ;-)

[Scottie]

Try removing the space between color and : .

For a link, you'll want to use:

.banana a:link { color:yellow; }

although I would recommend using:

.banana a:link { color:#ffff00; }

I prefer the hex designation for colors, just to be safe.

[idrive]

Update upon testing (before looking at Scotties reply ;-)):

The problem appears to be with the fact that it is an external style sheet. If I copy the styles from the external stylesheet and put them on the html page, they work!!!

I have tested this on a separate document and had no problem. There is something extremely obvious going on here....but it's not obvious enough *grin*

[Randy]

Remember now...don't shoot the messenger. :laugh:

In your CSS file, you've closed your "body" section with a parentheses instead of a squiggly bracket. Fix that and it should work in Netscape then.

[idrive]

Oh my! That's it? Wow...now I know how students feel when I am teaching them html and they have forgotten to close a bracket *grin*

Thanks Randy!

BTW, do you know if <strong> tag is unsupported in Netscape? I am looking at my paragraph headings.

Makes me think I should look into Top Style or another CSS editor that can validate CSS and advise you of styles that are not used in the document...

[Randy]

Netscape supports the <strong> tag, generally speaking. I say generally speaking because there is often a world of difference depending upon if you're referring to Netscape Navigator 4.x, Netscape 6.x or Netscape 7. Especially when it comes to support of CSS methods. However all three of those should at least recognize the <strong> tag if memory serves.

Basically Netscape makes <strong> text into boldface letters, so the tag is roughly equivalent to the <b> tag in my mind for Netscape. This, of course, is a bit different than how IE adds emphasis where the <strong> tag is concerned.

If you want the <strong> to appear the same in IE and Netscape the best way to do that IMO is to simply set up a "strong" subset in your CSS file and hardcode the text appearance you want. Not a perfect solution, but at least it's a workable one.

[leftbrain]

idrive, if you are looking for a CSS2 reference that indicates browser compatability, a good one is to be found at the W3Schools web site. They also offer free tutorials on CSS, as well as many other web-related technologies.