No CSS Style in Internet Explorer

Although cross-browser compatibility is high priority for my clients sites, I admit I don’t often fire up Internet Explorer to view this site. I had a reason to do that today and was dismayed at what I saw.

No, I haven’t been an extended participant in the CSS Naked Day.

So why is my site unstyled in Internet Explorer? It worked fine in my trusty Firefox, Opera displayed it ok, Netscape didn’t have any problems.

I viewed the source of some web sites I trust. I was looking at how they linked their stylesheet. I don’t think I have a hard and fast rule for how I normally do it. The few web sites I browsed had relative, absolute and @import links to their stylesheet. I figured I’d change mine from relative to absolute and see if that did the trick. Sure enough it did.

For those just wrapping your head around links:

Relative link to stylesheet

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

Absolute link to stylesheet

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://www.darrenfauth.com/css/stylesheet.css” type=”text/css” />

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