It's possible that you have your external style sheet in a different directory than you have the html documents.  
In this case, you need to be sure the directory path is accurate from there.

Hope this helps,

Carole

11/14/2002 3:48:03 PM, "Ann Ezzell" <amcbainezzell(at)alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
>I'm using @import (in my external stylesheet) to bring in a secondary
>stylesheet that contains styles for newer browsers that have a tendency
>to mess up NN4 (alas, some of our clients are still running NN4...)
>
>This doesn't work when it's in the imported stylesheet, even though it
>works in the main stylesheet:
>
>background-image: url(/_images/menu_bottom.gif);
>
>Any idea why?
>
>
Carole Gay

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