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XHTML Issues - doctype

not working with css

webmasterguy

3:49 am on Mar 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

For some strange reason my search input box on my site losses the css style ie: border color, size etc..when i use the doctype below. Alse when using the doctype below in my documents its not allowing me to use scrollbar color change code in my css.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

What causes this to happern?

Robin_reala

10:43 am on Mar 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

At a guess, are you serving your CSS files with the correct media type? It should be ‘text/css’. You can check this if you’re using Firefox by going directly to the CSS file (in the address bar), going to Tools / Page Info and checking the Type field.

penders

12:55 pm on Mar 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

When you are not using your "XHTML 1.0 Transitional" DOCTYPE, what DOCTYPE are you using (if any)?

Certainly WITHOUT a DOCTYPE, CSS can behave very differently - with IE not cascading styles properly etc. etc.