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Nested CSS Problem

Answer 1

+1 A:

I would use either a strict or transitional doctype. The xhtml doctype isn't well supported and my understanding is that it's basically going away.

for strict use:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;

for transitional use:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

I almost always use strict as it offers the best browser support. Typically there are only a couple minor styles I need to set to fix some margins on certain tags.

Also, it's worth noting that when you completely remove the doctype line all browsers fall back to quirks mode, which is rarely a good thing. W3.org has a list of valid doctypes you might want to investigate.

Chris Lively 2010-07-29 19:46:34

Still have the same issue...the "top" style is still applied

DD 2010-07-29 19:51:46

See Gert G's answer; he caught the actual error. I still recommend strict for compatibility reasons though.

Chris Lively 2010-07-29 19:53:09

Answer 2

+4 A:

Class names are case sensitive, so errmsg is not the same as errMsg. Change <table class="errMsg"> to <table class="errmsg">.

Gert G 2010-07-29 19:48:58

+1. Good catch.

Chris Lively 2010-07-29 19:54:04

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