Re: CSS present in DOM but not applied

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:09:45 GMT
Flintstone scribed:

> There are 3 or 4 places I could have posted this but I think this
> group is the most likely to come up with a solution.
>
> I have a web app written in ASP.NET with an external stylesheet which
> is actually an aspx file. Normally the page loads fine and all styles
> are applied correctly but I have discovered a weird IE only problem.
>
> 1) Copy some text from the web page
> 2) Paste the text into Word
> 3) Close the web page and open it again.
>
> Magically all my CSS styles vanish. The strangest thing is that if I
> look at the DOM in IEs Web Developer Toolbar all of the colors, styles
> etc from the stylesheet are present but for some reason they are not
> applied.
>
> I have tried setting the stylesheet to disabled
> (document.styleSheet[0].disabled=true) and then enabling it again but
> that seems to make no difference.
>
> Pressing F5 fixes the page but I really need a more permanent fix.
>
> Does anybody have and idea why this happens or what I could do about
> it?

Interesting screw-up. Are you using xhtml or html? I suspect it is just
another one of the myriad IE faults but you could try playing with the
cache to see if it makes any difference.

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