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Asked: 2026-05-15T00:39:02+00:00

I have a strange problem, Firefox 3.6.3 doesn’t show the CSS of the page

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I have a strange problem, Firefox 3.6.3 doesn’t show the CSS of the page I’m doing, but Internet Explorer 8 does.

I have tried at home and at one of my friend’s home, and it happens in both. But, if I go to the Firefox Web Developer toolbar (i have it installed) and select CSS=>Edit CSS, then the styles appears appears in the page and in the editor! As soon I close it, they disappears again. I have no idea what the problem is 🙁

<!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" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Students</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>

I’ve validated my two css files with the W3C CSS validator and there are no problems.

Do you have any idea about what could be the problem?

thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ll bet a beer that the CSS file is not sending the content-type: text/css header. This causes style sheets to not work in Firefox. IE will ignore the content type.

    If this is the reason, you should get a warning in the Firefox error console. You can use Firebug’s net tab to verify the content-type sent.

    As to why the content type isn’t sent, this would be a server issue I think. It usually happens when the CSS file is a .php or .asp file that doesn’t get assigned the correct content type automatically by the server when delivering.

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