I'm learning to use CSS with html (anything to try and make an ugly webpage look better) and I can't get it to work. At this stage I'm not sure if it's a problem with apache (which I know next to nothing about) or my html/css. I'm running vanilla apache as it came with SuSE 7.3. (Apache 1.3.20) I have the following files in /home/jsc/html_public/chinees-blauw/ index.html chinees-blauw.css The css file reads: .test { background:black ) The html file reads: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Chinees Blauw</title> <link title="cb_main" rel="stylesheet" href="chinees-blauw.css" type="text/css"></link> </head> <body> <table height="100" width="100%" align="center" class="test"> <tr> <td>Hello</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> I am expecting to not be able to read the word 'Hello' as if the style sheet works then it should be black text on black background. I am accessing the page through http;//localhost/~jsc/chinees-blauw/index.html and of course I can see the text. I have tried all sorts of different combinations of relative and absolute paths for the link to the stylesheet. I have checked the style by substituting the tag with the <STYLE> definition and it works. So my question is do I have to tweak apache to get css to work or am I doing something else wrong? TIA, Jethro