>According to common wisdom, you should be using a <!DOCTYPE> declaration >at the beginning of your HTML documents so that the newer browsers render >your code as you expect them to, right? > >So why doesn't this work? > >http://www.howcheng.com/test.php -- has a doctype declaration, but the >external CSS file isn't read The server is providing an incorrect mime-type for the CSS file - I assume you are testing this page in Mozilla? read on: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=MozillaCssMimeType --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: http://www.saturn5.com/mike/contact.html "Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!"