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CSS

William Davis
William Davis
2,324 Points
Posted by William Davis
William Davis
2,324 Points

HTML not invoking style sheet in browser view.

I'm working on an independent project in Notepad++ as I follow the lessons. But when I open the HTML in the browser, the style sheet I've made does not have its effects applied. The file path is correct, nothing is misspelled, and I've been able to apply the same properties in the HTML itself and have them show up in the browser. Really at a loss as to why they don't connect, I thought it might be a Notepad++ issue but I don't know.

<head>
        <meta charset=”utf-8”>
        <title>The Wonderful World of Stuff</title>
        <link rel=”stylesheet” href="css/style.css">
</head>

* {
    background-color: red;
}

2 Answers

Kenan Memis
Kenan Memis
47,314 Points
Kenan Memis
Kenan Memis
47,314 Points

Hi William,

I just tried this code in Notepad++ and works perfect:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>
<meta charset="utf-8"> <title>The Wonderful World of Stuff</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css"> </head> <body> <p>AAAA</p> </body> </html>

Cisco Rendon
PLUS
Cisco Rendon
Courses Plus Student 37,546 Points
Cisco Rendon
Cisco Rendon
Courses Plus Student 37,546 Points

William,

try removing the "css" from href="css/style.css." It needs to read the file labeled style.css, according to the way it was written out, the href is looking for a folder named css not the style sheet. See if that may work for you

William Davis
William Davis
2,324 Points
William Davis
William Davis
2,324 Points

I've got it in that folder though, the style sheet is inside it.