CSS giving different results when defined locally, and when defined using an include file.

Question

In my experimental photo album page I originally defined the
styles in a
separate .CSS file. However this appeared to be incompatible
with the
requirement to have the session_start (); statement at the
start of the file, so
I then defined the styles locally. Now I have found that a
style which gives
padding to the right of an image no longer works in IE6,
although Dreamweaver
shows the expected result.
I have made two very simple test files to demonstrate this:
http://localhost/Corybas/Cydalba/Test/Test_page_8[1
http://localhost/Corybas/Cydalba/Test/Test_page_8[2
In Test_page_8[1].htm styles are defined by the include file
../Spl2.ccs, which
is included using the following statement in the head:
<link href="../Spl2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
/>
The include file reads:
/* Test.css for Cydalba project */
.img_left { float:left; border:none; padding-left:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-top:0; padding-right:10px; }
p { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color:
#f00000;
margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 0px; border: 0; }
In Test_page_8[2].htm styles are defined locally, using the
following lines at
the start of file:
<style type="text/css">
/* Test.css for Cydalba project */
.img_left { float:left; border:none; padding-left:0;
padding-bottom:0;
padding-top:0; padding-right:10px; }
p { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color:
#f00000;
margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 0px; border: 0; }
</style>
With IE6 Test_page_8[1] gives the expected padding between
the images and the
adjacent text, but Test_page_8[2] does not. The para
definition appears to work
correctly in both cases.
Can anyone explain this?
Clancy

Answer 1

Hi Rob,
I am making a wild guess here...the reason could be that the internal tables or variables declared as part of Global data (if any) must be refreshed in your FM code.
Regards,
Sumant.