The only thing that can come before an @import
statement in a CSS stylesheet is an @charset statement.
@charset statement specifies the character encoding used by the stylesheet.
The following code demonstrates how to specify the UTF-8 encoding.
@charset "UTF-8"; @import "styles.css"; span { border: medium black dashed; padding: 10px; }
If you don't specify a type of character encoding, the browser will use the encoding specified in the HTML document that loaded the stylesheet.
If there is no encoding specified for the HTML document, UTF-8 will be used by default.