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Firefox 3 syntax error with external css

Answer 1

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Was the file written on windows? Maybe you need to reformat the carriage return/new line to mac os x. try running the file through something like dos2unix on the command line. Could also be a bom you're not seeing.

apphacker 2009-05-09 04:20:16

nope - written in TextMate. Tried fooling with line endings anyway to no avail.

Matt Van Horn 2009-05-09 04:34:59

Answer 2

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My guess is that there's some hidden character that might have been accidentally saved in the file. Try re-saving the CSS file, or re-typing the first line and then re-saving it.

htw 2009-05-09 04:24:58

Tried this too. retyped it all carefully, still get the error. And still no error when I cut and paste it into a script tag, which I would expect if I was picking up special characters. (the line number means nothing, I discovered - it always reports 1/1 for an external css file, no matter what line the actual error is on)

Matt Van Horn 2009-05-09 04:37:07

Answer 3

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It's giving you the error on the first character in the file, which is a 'd', which rules out things like "hidden" special characters to me. I'd guess that firefox isn't able to open the file locally for whatever reason, or that the file was accidentally saved with an encoding that, although it displays fine in the dialog box, doesn't parse normally. Perhaps it's saved as Unicode by mistake?

If you could link us to the actual file it would help, since your syntax (despite the markup not being exactly valid, but I don't think that's it) is perfect in the .css file you pasted in.

Nicholas Flynt 2009-05-09 04:35:58

apphacker seems to have beaten me to the punch: sounds like the Unicode bom is what's causing it.

Nicholas Flynt 2009-05-09 04:37:57

Answer 4

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The answer turned out to be "Turn off extensions (it was YSlow)" as suggested in the comments.

Matt Van Horn 2009-05-09 04:59:03

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