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CSS

Posted by zapjrpirqq
zapjrpirqq
1,497 Points

CSS Foundation Stage 1 - Having trouble linking CSS to HTML File

So I'm in the beginning stages of CSS foundations and I am having trouble linking my CSS to my html. I have all both of my html (called "index") and css file (called "style") saved inside of a folder (called "Treehouse") on my desktop, so basically I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong in linking them together. Below is my HTML link on the index file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Adding CSS</title>
    <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”Treehouse/style.css” type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

5 Answers

Steven Chin
Steven Chin
2,001 Points
Steven Chin
Steven Chin
2,001 Points

Here is a template for an HTML page using stylesheets. Because you have not specified any markup, I am just placing here the general syntax: 

<html lang="en">

<head>
<!-- title of page -->
<title>[Name of Page Goes Here]</title>
<!-- style sheet linkage -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="[path to file]" />
</head>

<body>
->[body content goes here]<-
</body>

</html>
Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
9,127 Points
Jason Nelson
Jason Nelson
9,127 Points

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

You need have a link rel called stylesheet and a href pointing to where your css file is located.

Luis Magaña
Luis Magaña
13,042 Points
Luis Magaña
Luis Magaña
13,042 Points

All above is correct make sure you know where your stylesheet resides if its in the root with your index.html it should be <code>href="styles.css"</code> if its nested within a folder specify the folder <code>href="css/styles.css"</code>

Philippe Parmentier
Philippe Parmentier
9,517 Points
Philippe Parmentier
Philippe Parmentier
9,517 Points

from just reading your message, you wrote that both of your files are in the same folder.

or the path you wrote in your html is : Treehouse/style.css.

it is tricky because you would think it would recognize your Treehouse folder but it does not work that way.

here it just looking for a file in a directory called Treehouse where the index.html is.

when both files are at the same level(means the same directory folder), you just need to put : href="style.css"

if you want a file in a directory above Treehouse you can use "../" by exemple

try using the html editor brackets, it helps me finding the path to the files. good luck.

zapjrpirqq
zapjrpirqq
1,497 Points
zapjrpirqq
zapjrpirqq
1,497 Points

Okay I see where I went wrong I think I had the files nested and forgot to acknowledge that in the href code, thanks all for the help this is truly a helpful forum