css frustration

hey-

I'm trying to use style sheets on a promotional page of my band's website. I've been using stylesheets forever, so it's not that I'm unfamiliar, just thought i'm running into two problems. One is text sizing. I used the 'font-style:10pt' command to get my text formatted to that particular size, however it won't work. Here's the actual style sheet:


body {background-color:#000000; color:#ffffff; font-family:Verdana,arial; font-size:5pt;}

a:link {color:Blue; text-decoration:none;}

a.hov1:hover {color:#ff6600; text-decoration:none;}

a:visited {color:Maroon; text-decoration:none;}

everything else except for the font-size command is working. am i doing something wrong?

the other problem i was having is with external linking. i just couldn't get it to work at all. I tried using relative and remote paths, changing the location of the .css file, nothing was working. I was using: [link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.fplg.net/lib/page_temp.css" type="text/css"] ..is that wrong? the external one also contains the same style info as the one posted above.

the link to the page: URL

Keep this in mind: <font> tags are inline style (in your HTML) so they have a very high specificity - which is a fancy way of saying they win out over stylesheet CSS every time. You can assign CSS using font as a selector:

font {color:#ffffff; font-family:Verdana,arial; font-size:5pt;}

You can add classes to apply style differently to <font>s:

font.red {color:red;}
font.blue {color:blue;}

<font class="red" color="red">

These will overrule anything assigned in the <font> tag itself, while non-CSS users will get the inline style. Or you could just dump the inline stuff altogether and separate content & style completely.

The 'link' looks OK - hard to judge w/o knowing the file path. No HTML in CSS files, btw.

I'm familiar with the fact that anything in the <font> tags will overide a style sheet, but why is it that the text size is displayed incorrectly when i clearly have a font-size command in the body section of the style sheet?

Try losing the hash.

the hash? what in the hell is that?

font {font-size:[size=huge]#[/size]10 pt;}

maybe I'm on crack, but i didn't see any hashes in the style sheet next the font commands/tags?

are you saying take ALL hashes out? ...i'm pretty sure that those are needed when using the RGB color codes?

Hey -

I cut & pasted the above rule directly out of the linked page from your original post - which I went back and checked and, it's still there. There's also a space in it - not allowed.

Guess you're on crack.

Let me know if you want to discuss this in a civil manner. We don't get paid all that well for hanging around here.