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CSS

Posted by mryoung
mryoung
4,156 Points

HTML and CSS not linking

Hello,

I'm working on a personal project as I work my way through the basics. I'm trying to link my html and css together.

I have my index.html and my css file in a folder call CitySite.

Here is my code within the head tags:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css">

I'm trying to test it out, so inside my css is some basic property changes:

body { color: blue; } h1 { color: green; }

When I pop open the console it says "Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND"

1 Answer

zainsra7
zainsra7
3,237 Points
zainsra7
zainsra7
3,237 Points

Hi,

Here's the proper way to link css file with your html file :

Inside your index.html , write following piece of code within head tags,

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>

Apart from Treehouse, your best friend for front end development and projects is W3School, Do give it a try

Here's the link for it : W3Schools

Enjoy Learning and Happy Coding :)

  • Zain
mryoung
mryoung
4,156 Points

Thanks for the help, is the type required? I've never seen it before.

I also realized my issue was that I never put .css after the file name. Once I changed that it all worked.