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CSS

Posted by Nathan St. Clair
Nathan St. Clair
879 Points

CSS file won't work in index.html.

I am currently working through the "How to make a website" tutorial. I am working on the CSS session, and I can't get the main.css file to import into the index.html file. I have checked it several times for mistakes and typos and I can't find any. Does anyone have any suggestions or had this same problem?

Thanks

Evans Attafuah
Evans Attafuah
18,277 Points

Paste your code here to see if I can debug the problem.

Nathan St. Clair
Nathan St. Clair
879 Points

Here is what I have entered. 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nathan St. Clair | Photographer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
Jovanny Elias
Jovanny Elias
16,204 Points

Hi, I went ahead and edited your post to fix how your code should be displayed take a look below and/or look at the markdown cheatsheet below every forum post.

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1 Answer

Jovanny Elias
Jovanny Elias
16,204 Points

If your files are under the same directory as your html remove css/ just write down the normalize.css.

If you have then a directory up add ../ before css/normalize.css

For example

Within the same folder, just use the file name:

href="thefile.html"

Within a super-directory:

href="../thefile.html"

Within a sub-directory:

href="subdir/thefile.html"