HTML5 style tag problem?

HTML & CSS
1

I’m trying to create a modal dialog for my site and the css style inside the <style> tags dosen’t work but if i link it in from an external css file it applys the style fine. Wondering if theres anything i’ve got dont wrong here. The code is below along with a link to view. Thanks.

My Modal Dialog

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>My Modal Dialog</title>
<style type="text/javascript">
body {
     height:100%;
     margin:0;
     padding:0;
}
#overlay {
     visibility: hidden;
     position: absolute;
     left: 0px;
     top: 0px;
     width:100%;
     height:100%;
     text-align:center;
     z-index: 1000;
     background-image:url(background-trans.png);
}
#overlay div {
     width:300px;
     margin: 100px auto;
     background-color: #fff;
     border:1px solid #000;
     padding:15px;
     text-align:center;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.14/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function overlay() {
	el = document.getElementById("overlay");
	el.style.visibility = (el.style.visibility == "visible") ? "hidden" : "visible";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="overlay">
     <div>
          <p>Content you want the user to see goes here.</p>
     </div>
</div>
<a href='#' onclick='overlay()'>Click here to show the overlay</a>
</body>
</html>
2

Try <style type=“text/css”> instead.

3

Thanks for picking that up that was actually pretty stupid of me. Thanks.

4

… and why are you TRYING to inline it? Just looking to waste bandwidth or something? Oh wait, you’ve got jq stuff in there too so… ok, yeah.