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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Include External CSS

I don't see any changes with css stylesheet

Hi there,

After including the stylesheet element, I no longer see my webpage but "Index of/. I don't see any of the style changes as seen in Nicks' video.

I have to click on a link that reads: "img/" in order to see my webpage- however none of the styling is applied. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Thank you for your input!

Here's my code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Johnny Garces | Chief Servant</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
  </head>

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

The index of/ page appears when there is no index file in the root directory. It sounds like you have a folder in the root directory named "img" and your website lives inside that folder.

If that's the case, that would explain why your CSS isn't working. The URL doesn't look right with you having to click on the img folder. I also image you didn't mean to have your whole site live inside that img folder.

To verify, you can use your browsers dev tools to see if the CSS file is actually be found or not. My guess is it's not. You would then need to get your folder and file structure as you want it, and make sure your href attributes are correct for your particular file structure.

*My man" as Denzel would say. Thanks for the helpful response!