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charset utf-8 declaration in CSS causes Safari to not display background

Asked by yessirnosir in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Adobe Dreamweaver

Tags: charset, utf-8, css, dreamweaver, safari, background

Have noticed before that if I create a new CSS file in DW it automatically puts these two lines at the top of the file:
@charset "utf-8";    
/* CSS Document */

I always ignored that until yesterday when, in answering a question here on EE someone pointed out that my solution wasn't displaying correctly in Safari.  Upon digging a bit, I found that the "@charset "utf-8"" statement was the culprit -- Safari would not display the background color on my <body> tag unless I deleted that charset line.  Sample code below can be used to see the problem in action.

So my questions are:
1. is this a Safari bug?
2. is there some preference in DW that I should change so it doesn't automatically add that line, or uses a different format?
3. will there ever be a case where deleting that line from my CSS will cause some other problem, or can I just delete it from all my CSS files with impunity?

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Test Charset UTF-8</title>
<style type="text/css">
@charset "utf-8";    /* this line, inserted by Dreamweaver if you create a new CSS file, causes Safari to ignore the background color */
/* CSS Document */
body {background:blue;}
</style>
 
</head>
 
<body>
</body>
</html>
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Zones: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Adobe Dreamweaver
Tags: charset, utf-8, css, dreamweaver, safari, background
Solution Provided By: GreenGhost
Participating Experts: 3
Solution Grade: A
 
 
 
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