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

Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points
Posted by Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points

Is it custom to just copy/paste or upload normalize.css?

Or do Front-End dens write it by hand every time they start a new project? He didn't really touch on that.

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Ryan,

I don't do much front-end work, but that would be a whole lot of CSS to write out every time.

You could download the file and just include the stylesheet reference in your document, just like any other CSS stylesheet. Or, you could also use a CDN to include it in your doc. Either way is good.

Hope that helps to clear it up for you :)

:dizzy:

Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points
Ryan Maneo
Ryan Maneo
4,342 Points

I suppose it does. the question was basically, if I got a Job somewhere, would they expect me to write that out by hand, or is it just a public thing that people download from a repository if they desire?

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Ryan,

Yes, it's publicly available here: https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/

You can get the latest version there but I recommend you finish off this course with the older 1.x version that comes with the project files so that you don't have any visual inconsistencies between Nick's files and your own.

With brand new projects you'll likely want to grab the latest version.

Here's some more information about it from one of its creators, Nicolas Gallagher.

http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/

From that page,

The project is the product of 100’s of hours of extensive research by @necolas and @jon_neal on the differences between default browser styles.

So it's definitely not something you'd be expected to remember or write out by hand each time.

Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points
Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points

Hi Ryan,

In a later CSS course, CSS Layout Basics, they go into more detail on this normalize.css file. They give you a link on where to download the latest version, as well as list some other popular CSS resets.