CSS will not work

tu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I try to reference an external CSS file, it does not work. My header code for HTML output looks something like the following:

print header;
print<<END;
<html><head>
<link rel="stylesheet"  href="member_style.css" >
</head>
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---------- I have also tried to do it these ways:

print header;
print start_html(  -style=>{-src=>'http://localhost/cgi-bin/template/h
+ardcode/member_style.css'} );

print start_html(  -style=>{-src=>'./member_style.css'} );

print start_html(  -style=>{-src=>'member_style.css'} );
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thanks.

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Re: CSS will not work by Trimbach (Curate) on Aug 06, 2001 at 22:58 UTC
You need to give src a full URL, not a path. So this should work: `print start_html( -style=>{-src=>'http://www.somewhere.com/member_sty +le.css'} );` [download] Gary Blackburn Trained Killer	[reply] [d/l]
Re:x2 CSS will not work by grinder (Bishop) on Aug 07, 2001 at 01:35 UTC
A full URL? That's news to me. I use the following code. Looking at the code here, I may be using an ancient idiom that has since been superceded, but I offer it for completeness' sake. `use CGI qw/Link/; my $q = new CGI; print $q->header(), $q->start_html({ -title => 'title of my page', -head => Link({-rel=>'stylesheet', -type=>'text/css', -href=>'/fo +o.css'}), });` [download] I sorta like this, because it reminds me just what exactly I'm asking the script to emit. update: I typed the above code in from memory, and in the original incarnation, I wrote `-href=>'foo.css'`. I checked some production scripts, and what I do In Real Life is `-href=>'/foo.css'`. This is not a relative reference (correct me if I am wrong), in that I am not using `-href=>'../foo.css'` -- I guess you could say it's absolute on the current server. I was taking issue with the explicit `http://`... I don't believe that that is necessary, and it makes it a smidgin easier to transfer the script from one host to another. -- `g r i n d e r`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re:x2 CSS will not work by Trimbach (Curate) on Aug 07, 2001 at 03:10 UTC
Well, yeah, but some web servers don't resolve relative pathnames nicely, and it's generally not a good idea to put your css files in the same directory as your executable scripts (as someone else already pointed out.) In such cases, a fully qualified URL is your friend. Gary Blackburn Trained Killer	[reply]
Re: CSS will not work by miyagawa (Chaplain) on Aug 06, 2001 at 23:24 UTC
Can your "member_style.css" be fetched via HTTP? For example with Apache, /cgi-bin/ is ScriptAliased, so any static files on that directory can't be accessed directly. Put it in static DocumentRoot directory instead. Hope this helps. -- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa miyagawa@cpan.org	[reply]
Re: CSS will not work by zeno (Friar) on Feb 24, 2003 at 12:29 UTC
Here's your problem: <link rel="stylesheet" href="member_style.css" type="text/css"> It won't work without the type. Hope that helps. -- Zeno - Barcelona Perl Mongers http://barcelona.pm.org http://www.javamonks.org	[reply]
Re: CSS will not work by wardk (Deacon) on Aug 07, 2001 at 00:00 UTC
probably a silly question, but usually CSS files are in an html directory, and code in cgi-bin (or similar) appears you are looking in the same place as the code... `# assuming it's in the root... print start_html( -style=>{-src=>'/member_style.css'} )` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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