CSS on BODY - changes not taking affect?

Question

hi, i have this...

body
{
 font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode';
 font-size: xx-small;
 color: #008080;
}

on the top of my style sheet, and non of those specs are taking affect on my page, nothing, i tried doing it on td, table, tr, span, div just in case i needed to be more specific, but nothing is working, i want to make global changes without having to change things one by one and i can't seem to find a solution, any ideas?

thanks - your input is appreciated

ps: more info for those interested: i have a standard mster page, and content pages, listview control that populated data from a database, but all the elements in my controls of concern is html elements (im sure some would be runat="server") the style is linked correctly as well, as other styles on the style sheet work...

here is the code where the text is not changing..

HTML TAGS ARENT DISPLAYING IN MY COMMENTS FOR SOME REASON...???

Answer 1

There is nothing syntactically wrong with that code. The issue must have something to do with how it is being applied to the HTML (and thus with some code or HTTP response header that you haven't shared with us).

Answer 2

Clear your temporary files and try restarting the browser - chances are that its using a chached copy of the page.

Answer 3

Should work, check your paths?

Answer 4

Hard to say without seeing the html and style sheet, but perhaps later declared styles are "overwriting" your body style?

Answer 5

If you can't see these changes they are being overridden by other styling applied somewhere else.

The easiest way to debug what css rules are being applied to elements on your page is by using a tool like the firebug extension available for firefox (available from http://getfirebug.com/)

Once you have this you can select an element and see what has been applied by what rule - and then you can override that rule!

There is also an IE dev toolbar, and developer extensions for chrome and firefox that do the same thing.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Can you upload a file to your server with the HTML & CSS. It's kinda of hard to tell whats going on without really seeing the code.