Actually, the problem is the path. Your path is saying there is a sub-folder called "searchfiles" INSIDE the folder "files" and the css file is in there. What you want to go up out of the files folder into the seachfiles and consult the css file that is in the parent folder. To that you use the dots (as illustrated above in my example), so the link tag should read:
link rel="stylesheet" href="../lists.css"
This tells the browser "go one directory upwards and use the file lists.css"--I suspect you are confusing the syntaxes (if that is a word) of absolute and relative links, and how they work. You can see how things work on my page here:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/snowleo1.html
Then select "View Source" from the View menu in Safari. The css file is actually here:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/mainb.css
And the image location is specified there, along with a bunch of other things, I could change the image used and formatting for all pages that use that style sheet by just editing the css file.
The only time I use type="text/css" is as a separate tag when I embed the css within the html page, and the W3C Validator doesn't seem to have a problem with that, and neither do any of the browsers I use.
If you want to validate your pages, take a look here:
http://validator.w3.org/#validateby_uri+withoptions
Sometimes the errors detected are useful for trouble-shooting your code.
Francine
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