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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Use ID Selectors

Posted by Bridget O'Shea
Bridget O'Shea
238 Points

Getting CSS to work, typed code just like in video and still doesn't work.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">  

<title>Designer</title>

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

</head>


<header>
Antonio Jaramillo
Antonio Jaramillo
15,604 Points

Could you post your code? I'll try to help out if I can.

https://teamtreehouse.com/community/posting-code-to-the-forum

2 Answers

Kenny Nadel
Kenny Nadel
7,695 Points
Kenny Nadel
Kenny Nadel
7,695 Points

Two Things:

1) Your head tag is closed after your body tag begins. Fix: Close the head tag and then open the body tag (then remember to close tags like body, header and html).

2) Remember that the order which the browser reads the css files and overrides them is important. For example, if you want everything you do in your normalize.css file to override the main.css file, it needs to be placed after the main.css file in the head section.

Hope this helps...