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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Type Selectors

Posted by Hunter Maxfield
Hunter Maxfield
Courses Plus Student 878 Points

CSS linking to HTML

I like to open up my own text editor documents on one monitor and follow along with the video's on another, but for some reason I cannot l get my css to link to the html, so I when I refresh the page, it doesn't work out for me. 

<link rel="stylesheet" href="*C:\Users\hmaxfield\desktop\style.css">

This is the exact file path. Helpppppp.

4 Answers

Salmen Bejaoui
Salmen Bejaoui
8,017 Points
Salmen Bejaoui
Salmen Bejaoui
8,017 Points

Are the css file and the index.html in the same folder ?

Timothy Armoo
Timothy Armoo
1,790 Points

I have the same problem: I have created a folder called Treehouse in which there are two things: the first is a file saying index.html and then the other is the folder websitewaters-island01-stage03 . Is what you mean by are the css file and html file in the same folder?

Hunter Maxfield
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Hunter Maxfield
Courses Plus Student 878 Points
Hunter Maxfield
Hunter Maxfield
Courses Plus Student 878 Points

I fixed it! I had an error in the file path. :p

thanks!

Hunter Maxfield
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Hunter Maxfield
Courses Plus Student 878 Points
Hunter Maxfield
Hunter Maxfield
Courses Plus Student 878 Points

I fixed it! I had an error in the file path. :p

thanks!

John Breiner
John Breiner
6,918 Points
John Breiner
John Breiner
6,918 Points

As a sidenote, it's a whole lot better to use relative links as opposed to absolute links like you've done. The reason being is if you move things it breaks the link. With relative, as long as you maintain the file structure for your website, your link will still be good.