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Posted by Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
6,209 Points

Css folders issues, possibly paths?

I'm on the beginner code of css and Nick mentioned a easy way to determine if your css and folders are nested correctly. Basically change the background to one color. I tried the easy coding example and of course my background didn't change.

My css folder is nested in my documents, in the css folder is normalize, and main.css. I knew I had a problem with my path when I tried doing my styling the footer green and no change change appeared.

This is super simple question which I should understand, but somewhere my paths are screwed. I'm on win7 ultimate and I've always had problems with limited paths and limitations.

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks,

Juan Jose Cortes Guzman
Juan Jose Cortes Guzman
7,894 Points

Hi Jason, can you show us a snapshot of your folder structure and the code you use to add the css files in the webpage?

2 Answers

Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
6,209 Points
Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
6,209 Points

Not sure how to snapshot, but the code I used on main. css

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main. css"> typed this under normalize. css

body { background-color: orange; }

I probably should figure out the snapshot because that's most likely the problem.

Juan Jose Cortes Guzman
Juan Jose Cortes Guzman
7,894 Points

Sorry by snapshot i mean a screen capture.

Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
6,209 Points
Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
6,209 Points

The hell my code doesn't show???

Juan Jose Cortes Guzman
Juan Jose Cortes Guzman
7,894 Points

No, no that code, the link rel="" etc... code, normalize should be put it first, then main.css. Remember they are examined in cascade, so the last code declaration overrides the earlier code (of course there some other issues) but it's probably because main.css is before normalize.css. That's me best guess. I hope it helps.