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CSS CSS Foundations Getting Started with CSS Adding CSS to a Page

Posted by Charles Steinmetz
Charles Steinmetz
14,420 Points

I am having trouble getting an external style sheet to link. I have followed the instructions but cannot get css to show

I saved the CSS course to the desktop and created the style.css file into the css folder. Following the instructions exactly but cannot get the rules to apply?

Index.html is:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Adding CSS</title> <link rel"stylesheet" href="css/style.css"> </head> <body>

style.css is:

h2 { color: steelblue; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 2px dotted; }

ul { color: white; background-color: steelblue;

}

Charles Steinmetz
Charles Steinmetz
14,420 Points

Figured out I left the = sign out between the rel and stylesheet. Thanks!

2 Answers

banu babanu
banu babanu
8,152 Points
banu babanu
banu babanu
8,152 Points

If your css file is into the css folder you must have this code:

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
</head>
Ali RahimDabagh
Ali RahimDabagh
2,296 Points
Ali RahimDabagh
Ali RahimDabagh
2,296 Points

Dear friend just remember some steps so as to not encountering such this problems:

  1. check out the link syntax and the path
  2. check out your css rules syntax very carefully
  3. in order to debug your problem comment your css`s rules and check them one by one by removing comment from each rule good luck