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CSS

Posted by Jeffrey Vander Voort
Jeffrey Vander Voort
Courses Plus Student 524 Points

CSS Normailize

Hi, I'm having trouble with the css normalize link in the Smells Like Bakin' website. When I enter the link into the text editor and refresh the internet page, there is no change. I've gone over it a bunch of times and I have it entered in exactly as it shows in the video. I'm wondering if i'm having trouble because the project downloads might not be working or if they aren't saved on my mac correctly. Has anyone else had this problem or just knows how to help? Thanks!

Brian Pirouet
Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points

I take it by trouble with the link you mean linking the CSS normalize page in the index.html??

Jeffrey Vander Voort
Jeffrey Vander Voort
Courses Plus Student 524 Points

yes.

Brian Pirouet
Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points

can you post how you are trying to link it then i could check you have it right?

Jeffrey Vander Voort
Jeffrey Vander Voort
Courses Plus Student 524 Points

here it is. link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css" type="text/css" media="screen"

Brian Pirouet
Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points

You do not have it inside of < > tags. You have to put it inside of those for it to work and be effective so this is how it should be in the <head> of your index.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

Try that, it should work for you.

Jeffrey Vander Voort
Jeffrey Vander Voort
Courses Plus Student 524 Points

i have them in the text editor, i just cut them out so that it would post here

Brian Pirouet
Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points

Oh ok, are you sure you have it inside the css folder?? Sure it is all lowercase?? I can't think why it won't work then, please post your head part

Jeffrey Vander Voort
Jeffrey Vander Voort
Courses Plus Student 524 Points

yeah its in the css folder I think. how would i make sure about that?

I'm not sure how to post it in here, how did you do it above?

1 Answer

Brian Pirouet
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Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points
Brian Pirouet
Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points

Just make sure you have the normalize.css file inside a folder names css?

Just paste your code here and put 4 spaces before it and it will turn into code.

Jeffrey Vander Voort
Jeffrey Vander Voort
Courses Plus Student 524 Points

yeah its in a folder named css

<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
  <title>Smells Like Bakin' Cupcake Company</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
Brian Pirouet
Brian Pirouet
Courses Plus Student 1,653 Points

Weird! Erm.. I can't think what it would be then unless you have something spelled wrong?

Sorry, is there a way you can upload your files and then post link I will have a look then see what the issue is??