Custom styles not showing up after upload

Question

I have recently begun using an external style sheet to
control much of my formatting, mostly
with no problem. But I've noted a couple of instances where
the styles don't seem to 'catch'.
One recent example, a major problem, is on this Q&A page
on a site:
http://www.pulversbriar.com/askmarty.htm
I created a custom style class for both the questions and the
answers, and included them in the external
("pipestyles.css" style sheet as follows:
.askmarty_QUESTION {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-style: italic;
color: #993300;
background: #CCCCCC;
.askmarty_ANSWER {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bolder;
color: #993300;
In DW, the styles appear fine. But when I upload the page to
the server (including dependent files
and the stylesheet), the styles don't work - I'm just getting
black and white, unstyled text. Other styles
in the style sheet *are* working, though.
Any suggestions as to what might be going on, and/or how I
can debug this?
thanks in advance for any help--
steve

Answer 1

Your stylesheet is corrupt. You have a style inside of a
style. Also your
missing the px on a couple of font sizes.
BEFORE - ( bad )
.style9 {font-size: 12;
color: #993300;
font-weight: bold;
.copyright {
font: bold small-caps 9px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;
color: #999999;
bottom: 50px;
AFTER - ( good )
.style9 {
font-size: 12px;
color: #993300;
font-weight: bold;
.copyright {
font: bold small-caps 9px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;
color: #999999;
bottom: 50px;
Regards,
..Trent Pastrana
www.fourlevel.com
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>I have recently begun using an external style sheet to
control much of my
> formatting, mostly
> with no problem. But I've noted a couple of instances
where the styles
> don't
> seem to 'catch'.
> One recent example, a major problem, is on this Q&A
page on a site:
>
http://www.pulversbriar.com/askmarty.htm
>
> I created a custom style class for both the questions
and the answers, and
> included them in the external
> ("pipestyles.css" style sheet as follows:
>
> .askmarty_QUESTION {
> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> font-style: italic;
> color: #993300;
> background: #CCCCCC;
> }
> .askmarty_ANSWER {
> font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> font-weight: bolder;
> color: #993300;
>
> In DW, the styles appear fine. But when I upload the
page to the server
> (including dependent files
> and the stylesheet), the styles don't work - I'm just
getting black and
> white,
> unstyled text. Other styles
> in the style sheet *are* working, though.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might be going on, and/or how
I can debug this?
>
> thanks in advance for any help--
>
> steve
>