Fw: Fw: Beginner Stylesheet Question

As a follow-up question, is there a particular way, or a best practice, for
setting the body background color when linking to a stylesheet file?  I'm
linking to the following file (styles.css) and it supposed to set the body
background color to Blue, however in IE 6 the body background color stays
White unless I embed the stylesheet directly on the page.  Additionally,
while linking to this file, it does not set the FONT, or font color either.
In fact, the only thing that does seem to work while linking to this file,
is the background color in the TABLE.  Why would it do this??  I do not have
any settings in the HTML that would counteract the stylesheet, so I'm kind
of scratching my head here.

Thanks
Anthony

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
BODY {
 background : #0000FF;
 font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size : medium;
 font-size-adjust : none;
 font-stretch : normal;
 font-style : normal;
 font-variant : normal;
 font-weight : normal;
 float : left;
 empty-cells : show;
 color : Red;
}

TABLE {
 background-color : #8CB4F6;
 border : medium Blue;
 empty-cells : show;
}

TH {
 background-color : #0000FF;
 color : Black;
 font-weight : bold;
}
</STYLE>




----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Abby" <anthonyabby(at)yahoo.com>
To: <hwg-style(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Beginner Stylesheet Question


> Gerhard,
>
> My stylesheet was in the same directory actually, but now I'm almost
> embarrassed.  The problem ended up being that the stylesheet file is named
> STYLES.CSS and I was calling STYLE.CSS.  Guess working on a project when
> only getting four hours sleep the night before isn't really a good idea :)
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Anthony




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