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 :-)

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 for the correction, even though I found the error already :-)

I think I was confused with <script> tags.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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?

If you have firefox with the livehttpheaders extension you can see the headers of all requests.

you can also use the lwp-request command that comes with LWP. For example:

lwp-request -m HEAD http://localhost/
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gives me:

200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:39:32 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "1cc17e-100e-3dba5c6e"
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_auth_pam/1.
+1.1 mod_perl/1.29
Content-Length: 4110
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Last-Modified: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:12:14 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:39:32 GMT
Client-Peer: 127.0.0.1:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
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The important part in this case is the Content-Type header. For a stylesheet it should say Content-Type: text/css optionally followed by a semi-colon and charset value - and a lwp-request <url> should give you the content of the stylesheet.

You could also try to see if making a plain HTML page containing the output of your script gives the same problem. Trying different browsers can also be enlightening.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"