- From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@imc.exec.nhs.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 09:42:44 +0100
- To: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Cc: WWW Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Carl Morris wrote: > > | From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@imc.exec.nhs.uk> > | To: Bert Bos <Bert.Bos@sophia.inria.fr> > | Cc: www-style@w3.org > | Subject: Re: Properties of HTML style > | Date: Tuesday, July 23, 1996 10:31 AM > > | MSIE3.0beta2 doesn't seem to recognise the CSS1 features which mirror > | the HTML extensions like '<body background=foo.gif>' (ie 'body > | {"background: url(foo.gif)}'), which is a little frustrating. > > MSIE supports this property just fine. There are lots its missing... > one site to check during daylight hours only is in my sig... there is > a link to another site about what MSIE doesn't support... I welcome all > to take a look.... offer suggestions... Well, I just discovered that it does in fact work, but *only* when you embed the stylesheet in the HTML document viz: <style type="text/css"><!-- BODY { background: url(foo.gif) white; } --></style> It doesn't work when linking in an external stylesheet viz: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="foo.css"> Chris
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