Re: Error Message for External Style Sheet

Thomas Gambet <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:56:34 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.org.w3c.validator.css
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Le 2/21/2012 5:39 AM, Yves Lafon a Ã©crit :
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> When validating an HTML file for CSS errors with the CSS validator,
>> the correctly formatted <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
>> href="styles1..css" /> is reported as an error as follows: File not
>> found: import file://localhost/styles1.css: Operation not permitted

> The issue is not that it's an external style sheet, it's more that you
> are using 'localhost', which won't work for most people reading that
> page (unless you will be the only one to access the server from the same
> computer, of course).

Frank is correct. The errors suggests that the CSS Validator resolves 
relative uris in an uploaded html file against file://localhost/, 
whereas relative uris should not be considered in that case and reported 
as not validated.

Thomas

---

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>Test file</title>
	<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body></body>
</html>