Why doesn't my IE8 specifc stylesheet correct browser styling?

Question

I am doing some fine tuning of a PSD to xhtml conversion and tweaking some of the IE8 styles - or at least trying. I have an IE7 and IE8 stylesheet, but for some reason, IE8 doesn't respond to my style changes. I did some drastic font color changes, but even that doesn't respond.

I have confirmed that the stylesheets are on the server and made sure that the page validates, but no dice.

Here is the page:

Here is the meta information:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="_css/filter.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="fancybox/jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css"/>
<!--[if IE 7]>
    <link href="_css/ie7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
    <link href="_css/ie8.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

Here is an example of something I tried to change just to see if it is connecting:

Standard CSS:

#intro #blurb h2     { font: bold 31px color: #fffeff; margin: 10px 0 10px 20px; }

IE8 styling:

#intro #blurb h2     { font: bold 31px color: #ff2500; margin: 10px 0 10px 20px; }

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Check:

• Does the file exist (has it been uploaded?)
• Is the file not loaded from cache? (only for non-local pages)
• Does your stylesheet contain syntax errors? (use http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)

To check whether the problem is in the CSS or the conditional comment, use:

<!--[if IE 8]>
    This should displayed in IE8 only.
<![endif]-->