I've got a website that I work on for fun. I don't have any formal education in coding websites which will probably show if you visit the site. I'm just learning as I go but my current problem is that the preferred stylesheet isn't loading up when people initially visit the site. The styles only work after someone uses the 'choose a style' page which uses a piece of javascript to set a cookie.

How can I get the preferred style to load up first time around? Site address is: www.oncewas.com

Without "really" reading through your code, it looks like you could do the following:

Change the red line in the javascript below to the bold line:

window.onload = function(e) {
var cookie = readCookie("style");
var title = cookie ? cookie : getPreferredStyleSheet();
var title = cookie ? cookie : 'default';
if ()
setActiveStyleSheet(title);
}

It also looks like you can get rid of the function getPreferredStyleSheet() unless it is used elsewhere. That function was the problem - it needs to return the value for the default style sheet and the value it returned didn't coresspond to any of the style sheets I saw

Michael J,

I found the styleswitcher script at 'A List Apart' written by Paul Sowden. I wasn't sure on what to change in it myself, but what you said above worked like a charm. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.