Version: 3.2.2 (using KDE 3.2.3, (testing/unstable)) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-4) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.7-1-686 [This is Debian Bug#231179, reported by Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@cccgt.org>. You can read the full log at <http://bugs.debian.org/231179>.] This is somehow related to KDE Bug#54335, which I understand, but different. Taking the sample page by Jon Dowland (http://toast.debian.net/~jmtd/konq/index.html), which now works, we have: <link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="red.css" type="text/css" title="Red" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="blue.css" type="text/css" title="Blue" /> That works as intended (blue background). Problem arises when *both* of the two following conditions are met: 1. "alternate stylesheet" lacks a "title" element. 2. "alternate stylesheet" appears *after* "stylesheet". In that case, red background is obtained. As I wrote in the Debian bug report: the real problem here is that the alternate stylesheet test.css does not have a title element which is, as per the relevant W3C specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#h-14.3.2) and AIUI, not a valid scenario for an alternate stylesheet: Specify that the style sheet is persistent, preferred, or alternate: - To make a style sheet persistent, set the rel attribute to "stylesheet" and don't set the title attribute. - To make a style sheet preferred, set the rel attribute to "stylesheet" and name the style sheet with the title attribute. - To specify an alternate style sheet, set the rel attribute to "alternate stylesheet" and name the style sheet with the title attribute. the user fix for this is to specify a title="foo" element in the alternate stylesheet link tag. however, as seems reasonable to handle the missing title element gracefully, and other browsers certainly do so, I'm forwarding this to upstream developers to see what they think. thanks.