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Josh Myers
3,203 Points.css will not link to .html
Hello, I'm having some trouble getting my .css page to link to my .html page. I've restarted my browser, cleared the cache, saved/refreshed, tried modifying different selectors, switched the order of my rel and href...everything I could think of. Here is the code I have..any help??
index.html: <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Josh Myers | Developer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head>
main.css: body {background-color: orange}
4 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,148 PointsHave you opened up your browser's development tools and confirmed it's able to find the css file? Usually these are do to mis-linked files.
Julien riera
14,665 PointsHave you specified the doctype ? (At the top of the index.html, you're supposed to have <!DOCTYPE html>)
Tanja Schmidt
11,798 PointsHi Josh, besides checking your internal link to your css files (do you have them in an actually css-named folder?): Did you place a semicolon behind "orange" in your actual main.css file? Maybe that is why it appears as if your css files aren't linked?
body {
background-color: orange;
}
Hope this helps! :)
Josh Myers
3,203 PointsI capitalized CSS in the directory and not in the file path....(face in palm, haha). Thanks everyone.