in reply to Style Sheet Doesn't Display Styles

It's all about visibility, or in Perl terms - scope. The page as you generate it expects to see the stylesheet in the same directory as the script, I think if you put a / in front you will force it to look at the root of the webserver ( ie domain.com/stylesheet.css ).

Your not the first person to get tripped up by this, it happened to me some years ago now when we first started using CSS.

jdtoronto

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Re^2: Style Sheet Doesn't Display Styles
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 19, 2006 at 20:25 UTC
    Likely as your explanation is, that doesn't explain why the stylesheet get picked up if the $body variable is short and not when it is long.

    CountZero

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Re^2: Style Sheet Doesn't Display Styles
by JaredHess (Acolyte) on Jul 19, 2006 at 20:37 UTC

    jdtoronto, thanks for replying.

    I'm not sure if that's it, because it is finding the sheet sometimes.

    In any case, I tried doing it with the initial slash (also tried an absolute pathway pointing to the .css), but neither improved performance.

    I thought it might be a local webserver thing, so I uploaded it and the style sheet to our production server and get the same result.

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      One thing I noticed is that you don't close your <link> tag. Closing link tags is NOT optional in HTML. just re-read the specs, and in fact you're not allowed to use a closing link tag. please ignore

      Another possibility is that your server isn't sending out the correct content-type header for the css.

      In any case it's more likely an HTML/browser/server problem than a perl question :-)

      "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"
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        Update: He corrected himself when I was writting my post. Ignore this post.

        No, the closing tag is optional (in HTML 4.01). Note the "O" for "Optional": 

        <!ELEMENT LINK - O EMPTY               -- a media-independent link -->
<!ATTLIST LINK
  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events -
+-
  charset     %Charset;      #IMPLIED  -- char encoding of linked reso
+urce --
  href        %URI;          #IMPLIED  -- URI for linked resource --
  hreflang    %LanguageCode; #IMPLIED  -- language code --
  type        %ContentType;  #IMPLIED  -- advisory content type --
  rel         %LinkTypes;    #IMPLIED  -- forward link types --
  rev         %LinkTypes;    #IMPLIED  -- reverse link types --
  media       %MediaDesc;    #IMPLIED  -- for rendering on these media
+ --
  >

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        Thanks Joost,

        If this is indeed the case, how would I check it (not familiar with this... this is the first time I've tried to use style sheets in my perl scripts) and how would I correct it?

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