Here is the scenario. On the index page, I include the css document, and the index page gets the css applied to the div's without an issue.

Now inside the index, theres a switch statement, and each part of the switch does one of two things...

PHP Code:

require_once('page_name'); 


or

PHP Code:

include('page_name'); 


Now with either one, if inside the 'page_name' is references to the style sheet linked IN index.php, none of the styles get applied.

is this supposed to happen this way? Or am maybe having a brain fart?

Thanks for any help, much appreciated.

It's supposed to work that way. One thing you may be overlooking is that in 'page_name' you may have a bad link to the CSS file. So if the main page and the included page are in different directories, you may need to play around a bit with the <link> tag href to get them working.

- Steve

Try giving absolute url path to the css file instead of using relative paths. Then you can identify what is the issue.