CSS: Linking to an External Style Sheet; LINK; @import; Using Style Sheets Locally

At this proprietary moment in time, it is better to use LINK HTML markup instead of W3C's @import to refer to external style sheets. My tests show that Netscape browsers ignore the following W3C-recommended syntax:

&lt;STYLE&gt;&lt;!--
    @import url(&quot;http://server/root.css&quot;);
//--&gt;
&lt;/STYLE&gt;

Where root.css is the name of an external style sheet file. Both Microsoft and Netscape browsers have no trouble with the following:

&lt;LINK
    REL=&quot;StyleSheet&quot;
    TYPE=&quot;text/css&quot;
    HREF=&quot;./root.css&quot;&gt;

where the HREF value is a relative URI.

mod date: 1999-01-13T17:32:15.000Z