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CSS

Posted by Peter Vanderlind de Oliveira
Peter Vanderlind de Oliveira
7,376 Points

Hard time trying to use external css stylesheet

I've tried everything I know of so far, but I can't get the path to work.

I have a folder (called - page), inside of it there is an html file and a css folder (called - css), inside the css folder you find the css file called - styles.

I think the path is correct, but no css is applied to the html.

How do I actually use an external css stylesheet (inside my computer)?

<link 
href="C:\Users\Peter\Desktop\page\css\styles.css" 
type = "text/css" 
rel="stylesheet"
/>

1 Answer

Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points

You can create a link relative to the current file's location, which is your HTML file. For example, your CSS file resides in -

href="css/styles.css"

Also remember that Windows uses backslashes, but you'll want to use forward slashes for paths in HTML.