>> http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout1.html >> <http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout1.html> >> >> with IE4.0, I see absolutely no formatting? > > IIRC IE4.0 doesn't understand @import and this is how the stylesheet > is loaded: > > <style type="text/css" media="screen">@import "layout1.css";</style> Correct answer, almost. IE4 does understand @import, just not using the above syntax. Alternative syntaxes such as @import url(layout1.css) work, but then the page fails in Opera. It's a better decision to let the older browser see the vanilla layout, rather than the newer one. Regards Mark Howells <http://www.mark.ac/evl/>