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CSS not loading in Firefox

Answer 1

+1 A:

CSS is handled differently in Firefox than it is in IE.

However, if your css should work fine in any browser, try:

Clearing your FF cache
Testing in Chrome or Safari

Does your page have any code which checks for browser type that may be stopping the CSS when it detects it is FF?

Cyclone 2009-06-20 03:45:37

Answer 2

+4 A:

UNC Paths

If you're linking to a file in a UNC path (e.g., \\servername\share\file.ext), you will need to specify the path thusly:

file://///servername/share/file.ext

Also note that you cannot link to file://///servername to get a listing of shares at that hostname due to a bug.

Source: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work

SztupY 2009-06-20 03:49:34

Btw. why are you using local UNC paths to the css file? Isn't there a better solution? (like using a webserver to handle file sendings?)

SztupY 2009-06-20 03:52:38

This is just a staging location for HTML that ends up being moved into a production CMS.

Joseph 2009-06-22 00:17:08

Answer 3

+1 A:

ok I fixed it by using the following and it now works in both IE and FF:

<link  rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/common.css">
<link  rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/css.css">

Joseph 2009-06-20 03:52:13

Answer 4

+1 A:

A wild guess, since I can't replicate your environment: I wonder if Firefox is having problems with either the $ in path or the backslashes. I'd first try replacing backslashes with forward slashes, then I'd try URL-encoding the $ (i.e., replacing it with %24).

Dave W. Smith 2009-06-20 03:52:51

Answer 5

+1 A:

I've had a similar problem with javascript files from time to time. I think firefox is sometimes case sensitive, so make sure the path to your file and its actual name use the same capitalisation.

wheresrhys 2009-06-20 11:34:13

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