# Css Dissappearing - Works fine on local computer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 27, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334 "2004-08-27T00:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ContinuumXLS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/continuumxls/32/544_2.png) [@ContinuumXLS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ContinuumXLS)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/1 "2004-08-27T00:13:21Z")

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Hello everyone,

I am making a new website using CSS and dreamweaver, and when I preview the site in dreaweaver, or when I hit f12, it works fine…But when I upload it to my site, the css won’t display at all, but the image that I manually put in will.

[www.webcontinuum.com](http://www.webcontinuum.com/)

Here is my css code:

```auto
 /* Webcontinuum Index Css :) */
 
body {
background-color: #CCCCCC;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-right: 20px;
padding: 0px;
font: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #000;
}
#header {
height: 75px;
border: 5px solid #000000;
background-color: #556575;
background-image: url(images/15/bg_header.jpg);
background-position: left;
}
#header h1 {
margin: 0;
} 

```

And here is my index.html code:

```auto
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>&laquo;Webcontinuum&raquo; Coming soon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="A Designer's portfolio directed twords flash and fireworks. Includes a forum." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Flash,Multimedia,Programming,Forum,community,Blog" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
@import "webcon.css";
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1 class="style1"><img src="images/15/header.jpg" width="200" height="75" /></h1>
</div>
 
</body>
</html>

```

(and yes they both are in the root directory 😃 )

Thanks for the help 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/2 "2004-08-27T05:29:10Z")

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remove your doctype

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/3 "2004-08-27T14:40:18Z")

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It didnt work ☹

I removed the doctype and the [w3.org](http://w3.org) tag…

```auto
 <head>
<title>&laquo;Webcontinuum&raquo; Coming soon</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="A Designer's portfolio directed twords flash and fireworks. Includes a forum." />
<meta name="keywords" content="Flash,Multimedia,Programming,Forum,community,Blog" />
<style type="text/css">
<!--
@import "webcon.css";
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1 class="style1"><img src="images/15/header.jpg" width="200" height="75" /></h1>
</div>
 
</body>
</html> 

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/4 "2004-08-28T14:50:28Z")

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Why dont you use a link?

```auto
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="webcon.css" type="text/css" /> 

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/5 "2004-08-28T20:15:33Z")

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I tried that before, and it didnt work either (I also used php) ☹

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/6 "2004-08-30T19:57:44Z")

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Ok, EthanM has found a solution…I had to change the permissions of the file from 623 to 677

…Oh, and Ethan says to say that he is smarter than you all 🙂 :thumb:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-dissappearing-works-fine-on-local-computer/62334/7 "2004-08-30T20:01:01Z")

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They all knew it anyway 😛
