CSS linking for Netscape 4.x

My basic.css file wont doesnt seem to work in older browers..

[donovanh]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a two-tiered css setup that gives more complex styles to the modern browsers using the import rule, and the link rule to serve a more basic sheet to the older browsers. Unfortunately, testing in many versions of netscape 4 (from 4.7 up) doesnt show the basic sheet.

The code used is this:

<link rel="StyleSheet" href="basic.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "complex.css";</style>

Any idea why the basic sheet isnt being picked up?

Thanks,

Don

[pageoneresults]

Not sure but I think the media="all" is a problem with NN4.x...

Another bug in the Netscape 4.x CSS handling is that any stylesheet media that is not equal to "screen" will cause the linked stylesheet to be ignored.

[DrDoc]

Welcome to Webmaster World!

NN4 doesn't understand media="all", it only understands media="screen".

Change the media declaration to "screen", or omit the media statement entirely (since "all" is the default value).

Too late ;)

[Nick_W]

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