cgi and css, body tag not recognize

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Re: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by Joost (Canon) on Jun 14, 2007 at 19:57 UTC
1. You must print() the output of $q->start_html. 2. Are you sure the href to the css is correct? This works: test.pl: `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $q =CGI->new; print $q -> start_html(-title => "bla", -style => { -src => 'test.css' +, -type => 'text/css', -media => 'screen' });` [download] test.css is your css. `$ perl -MCGI test.pl >test.html` Open test.html in firefox. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by yvan (Novice) on Jun 14, 2007 at 20:14 UTC
when the .html is display in firefox, the background colour is not changed. All the others classes in the css file work fine but not the body.	[reply]
Re^3: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by Joost (Canon) on Jun 14, 2007 at 20:24 UTC
Did you try what I did? Because it works fine for me. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by yvan (Novice) on Jun 14, 2007 at 21:19 UTC
Re^5: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by almut (Canon) on Jun 14, 2007 at 21:36 UTC
Re^4: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by yvan (Novice) on Jun 14, 2007 at 20:54 UTC
Re^5: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by Joost (Canon) on Jun 14, 2007 at 21:14 UTC
Re^5: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by ww (Archbishop) on Jun 14, 2007 at 21:35 UTC
Re: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2007 at 19:51 UTC
Check the HTML source that the CGI script produced. Does it contain the correct reference to the CSS file? Can you manually access that CSS file manually with that given URL? Perl 6 in German	[reply]
Re^2: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by yvan (Novice) on Jun 14, 2007 at 20:15 UTC
HTML and CSS are correct according to the W3C validators. Yes, other CSS classes work fine, just the BODY is problematic.	[reply]
Re^3: cgi and css, body tag not recognize by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2007 at 20:29 UTC
Try a `background-color: #0e7aef !important;` once (and write `body` in lower case, just in case you ever want to switch to xhtml), to rule out some interference with other declarations. And an URL to the problematic page might be helpfull so that we can see for ourselves. BTW which browser are you using? For development you should be using a standards compliant one (opera, firefox), not IE ;-) Perl 6 in German	[reply] [d/l] [select]