Re: CSS in NN giving me fits!

>     I've also had major issues with CSS in Netscape (4.5).
> I've so far found 3 reasons why it causes problems:
> 1) style sheet elements do not inherit properly like they do in IE. e.g.
> your "font-family: Arial, Helvetica,  Sans-serif" works ok for regular
text,
> but the h1 doesn't pick it up. Code font styles in all your element
> definitions (I know, it takes the "cascading" out of cascading style
sheets)
> 2) NN insists you have the semicolon, otherwise it doesn't understand
> anything that follows (not a problem with yours though)
> 3) A really cooky one i found today... the definition of the BODY element
> works fine until you have a <TD> in the HTML and that <TD> has data in it.
> After that NN ignores all the BODY definitions when it comes across
regular
> text. To get round the problem, I used DIV around my regular text and took
> all font-related information out of the BODY.
> The weird thing is, if the table is empty, there's no problem. Go figure.

Another bizarre one is that certain CSS body styles will work in NS if they
are included in the head section of the page, but not if they are in an
external linked stylesheet.

Brian
comharsa(at)clara.net

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