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Asked: 2026-05-15T04:34:00+00:00

<head> <title>Water Bureau</title> <link rel=shortcut icon href=/favicon.ico /> <link rel=stylesheet href=/css/main.css type=text/css media=screen title=Main

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<head>

    <title>Water Bureau</title>
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Main CSS">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="custom.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Custom Styles">
    <script language="JavaScript" src="/shared/js/createWin.js" type="text/javascript"></script> 

</head>

Thats the code, but the “custom.css” isn’t working. It doesn’t work at all. If we add a @import into main.css OR into the header instead of a it works fine though. Any ideas? We also got rid of the media=”screens” on both as well.

The CSS inside of it is working fine, it’s just when we stack those two, the first one parsed is the only one read by the browser. So if we swap main below custom, custom than works but NONE of main works. and custom just has snippet of CSS, and doesn’t override all the CSS in main, just 1 element.

I can’t figure it out! We have other ed stylesheets in the head (which we took out for trying to fix this) and they worked fine…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Like hsource said, try validating both css files.

    http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

    Also just try this, without that title thing with both css files in same folder, both relative to the page which is importing them:

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/custom.css" media="screen" />

    It also might be that because you are not using any doctype and also you are not closing your link tags, something related to that might be your problem. So try this:

    <!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" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title></title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" media="screen" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/custom.css" media="screen" />
</head>
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