[thelist] external CSS style application in JSP and Firefox

Mohsen Saboorian mohsens at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 02:08:41 CDT 2006


Just a few assumptions:
- Your CSS contains '=' instead of ':' which is non-standard but works in IE.
- You didn't <link> element properly, an example is:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="link/to/stylesheet.css" />

BTW, are you using a Servlet/JSP to output your CSS, or just using a .css file?

On 8/29/06, John DeStefano <john.destefano at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working with some folks that serve their site on Linux using JSP
> pages.  Whenever I create a new page and link a new CSS sheet to it,
> the strangest thing happens: the style doesn't take hold in Firefox at
> all, but it does in IE.  The <link> tag shows up in the source in
> Firefox, and Firefox's Web Developer extension displays all the right
> CSS data with it's "View CSS" function.  It just won't apply the
> styles.
>
> Both the CSS style and the HTML within the JSP page are valid.  I've
> tried both <style> and @imbed methods.  When I embed the CSS info in a
> style tag directly in the head of the document, the style is applied.
>
> It makes me wonder whether the error is related to a MIME type setting
> on the server, except for two things:
> - the server admin swears that the MIME type for CSS has been set
> properly (how would you go about verifying this?)
> - if it were a server MIME setting, why would IE be able to interpret
> the style, while Firefox wouldn't?
>
> The only other factor I can think of is that the pages use JSP format.
>  When I remove the JSP head calls and save a file as HTML, the style
> is applied (albeit, obviously, all the JSP functionality on the page
> is lost).
>
> So it's _got_ to be a JSP issue... right?  Maybe a Tomcat server
> setting?  Is there a non-conventional way in which JSP pages call out
> for CSS styles?
>
> Thanks,
> ~John
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