failed attempt to link to external stylesheet

[mayde]

My attempts to link an shtml page to an external stylesheet don't seem to be working. Or rather, my one attempt worked, but the page I need to work, doesn't.

Any idea why http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/honorscol...ed_index.shtml (linked to indexstyle.css) works, yet template.shtml (at the same location, linked to style.css) doesn't? I can't find any difference in the two files' coding and template.shtml is the one that I need to work with.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!! Thanks in advance!

[Twey]

I think it's most likely due to the fact that you've used an XHTML-style self-closing tag for the META tag above it, but you're using an HTML DOCTYPE. Fix that, and if it still doesn't work, the standard response is to validate your page.

[mayde]

Thanks so much for your reply, but neither fix seemed to work. I guess I'll just keep trying to play around with it and see if I can't do something that'll fix whatever mistake I made on the template page.

[GypsyOwl]

Twey,

I am a newbie.
That is a great page validator!
I am embarrased to admit that I had 90 errors and a total of 139 entries on my validation report for a page that I am working on. It is going to save so much time having a list to work out the coding ommisions.

Thanks!
GypsyOwl

[Twey]

That is a great page validator!

It's the official page validator

It is going to save so much time having a list to work out the coding ommisions.

Remember that validation is only a step, though. Just because your page validates, don't be fooled into thinking it's perfect.