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The Code Style Web site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) throughout, but is designed so that most of the site works without stylesheets. This article explains how to configure your Web browser to use CSS and includes links to recommended CSS browsers.

CSS enabled Web browsers

Browser configuration guide for CSS

These notes are based partly on the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets newsgroup FAQ.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 (Windows)

Support for CSS in Internet Explorer 3 is very poor and it is advisable to switch off support for stylesheets or use a different browser. See the recommended browsers below if you are interested in improved CSS support.

Switch off CSS support in Internet Explorer 3 as follows:

  1. Choose Internet options... on the View menu.
  2. Select the Advanced tab and un-check the box Use style sheets.
  3. Activate the OK button, then the Refresh button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 (Windows)

  1. Select Internet options... on the View menu.
  2. Select the General tab and activate the Accessibility button at the bottom right.
  3. Uncheck the following boxes:
    • Ignore color on Web pages
    • Ignore font style on Web pages
    • Ignore font sizes on Web pages
  4. Activate the OK button to back out to the Internet Options dialogue box.
  5. Select the Advanced tab and scroll down to the heading Print background colors and images and check this box (optional).
  6. Activate the OK button, then the Refresh button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 5.5 & 6 (Windows)

  1. Select Internet options... on the Tools menu.
  2. Select the General tab and activate the Accessibility button at the bottom right.
  3. Uncheck the following boxes:
    • Ignore color on Web pages
    • Ignore font style on Web pages
    • Ignore font sizes on Web pages
  4. Activate the OK button to back out to the Internet Options dialogue box.
  5. Select the Advanced tab and scroll down to the heading Print background colors and images and check this box (optional).
  6. Activate the OK button, then the Refresh button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Opera 3 (Windows)

  1. Select Document Appearance... on the Preferences menu.
  2. Check the following boxes:
    • Enable document CSS
    • Document CSS priority
  3. Activate the OK button, then the Reload button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Opera 4 & 5 (Windows)

  1. Select Preferences... on the File menu.
  2. Choose the Documents option, and in the Presentation modes section check the following boxes:
    • Document CSS (Document)
    • Document fonts and colors (Document)
    • Document mode as default
  3. Activate the OK button, then the Reload button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Opera 6 (Windows)

  1. Select Preferences... on the File menu.
  2. Choose the Page style option
  3. In the Defaults section, check the Author mode as default option.
  4. In the Author mode section check the following boxes:
    • Page style sheet
    • Page fonts and colours
    • Document mode as default
  5. Activate the OK button, then the Reload button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Netscape Navigator 4 (Windows, Macintosh, Unix)

Netscape 4 does not have a high level of CSS support and many features have bugs that may crash the browser. To prevent serious problems for Netscape 4 users, Code Style has been designed so that advanced CSS features will not be displayed in this browser. See the list of recommended browsers below for improved CSS support.

  1. Select Preferences... on the Edit menu.
  2. Choose Advanced and check the following boxes:
    • Enable JavaScript
    • Enable style sheets
  3. Activate the OK button, then the Reload button on the toolbar or menu option.

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Mozilla (Windows, Macintosh, Unix)

  1. Select Preferences... on the Edit menu.
  2. Choose Fonts on the side menu and check the box Allow documents to use other fonts.
  3. Choose Colors on the side menu and check the box Always use the colors and background specified by the web page.
  4. Activate the OK button, then the Reload button on the toolbar, or text menu.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01, 4.5 & 5.0 (Macintosh)

  1. Select Preferences... on the Edit menu.
  2. Choose the Web Content option under the Web Browser section.
  3. Check the following boxes:
    • Show Style Sheets
    • Allow page to specify colors
    • Allow page to specify fonts
  4. Activate the OK button to back out.

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iCab (Macintosh)

  1. Select Preferences... on the Edit menu.
  2. Choose Style Sheets (CSS) in the side menu.
  3. Check the box Enable Style Sheets
  4. Activate the OK button, then the Reload button on the toolbar or text menu.

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Recommended browsers

The following browsers have a good level of CSS support and will display most features of this site well.

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