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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Pick Fonts and Set Relative Units

Rodrigo Teixeira
Rodrigo Teixeira
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Rodrigo Teixeira
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Is link type attribute opitional?

I noticed that when google fonts were linked to the html document, besides the standard attributes such as rel and href, there was also a type attribute that hasn't been used before when linking main and normalize sheets. I checked it out on the internet and many main css files are linked using the type attribute as well. Which led me to the following questions: is it optional? What is the difference between writing it or not? Thank you.

Ryan Frizzell
Ryan Frizzell
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5409114/is-type-text-css-necessary-in-a-link-tag

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Meg Matty
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From googling around and looking at HTML5 specs and MDN, it would appear that the type attribute on link tags is "purely advisory" and may not necessarily break anything if not included. "Advisory" seems to mean it's just good practice to inform readers of your code what type is being linked.