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CSS

Posted by Crystal Bass
Crystal Bass
Courses Plus Student 957 Points

LINK ELEMENT

I inserted the link element into my html file, but when I refreshed my index page, I did not see any changes. There should have been slight changes. Did I do something wrong? Thanks!

7 Answers

Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
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Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
2,548 Points

The hyperlink element looks like this: 

<a href = "url">Text displayed</a>

But if you mean links that have to do with attaching CSS files to the HTML files, you shouldn't see anything.

Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
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Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
2,548 Points

Ok. I had this problem too. The way I fixed it is by changing the hyperlink, like this: 

href="normalize.css"

So the whole link looked like this (for me):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>

(the slash at the end of the link tag is optional).

Peter Keogh
Peter Keogh
7,744 Points
Peter Keogh
Peter Keogh
7,744 Points

Did you put the link between the two <head></head> tags? Is the link in the format below? '''html <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/your/file"> ''' You also need to make sure that the path to the style sheet is correct.

Crystal Bass
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Crystal Bass
Courses Plus Student 957 Points
Crystal Bass
Crystal Bass
Courses Plus Student 957 Points

I inserted <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css" type="text/css" media="screen"> below the title on my index page. It didn't change the font as I expected. I am doing a project for the CSS reset course. The instructor inserted the same link under the title on his page and it updated his page with a different font.

Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
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Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
2,548 Points

I changed the hyperlink reference to "normalize.css"

Crystal Bass
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Crystal Bass
Courses Plus Student 957 Points
Crystal Bass
Crystal Bass
Courses Plus Student 957 Points

I tried it, but it did not work. I may have to start over because I could have messed up somewhere when created the layout. Thanks for your help.

Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
2,548 Points
Nathaniel Satriya
Nathaniel Satriya
2,548 Points

It didn't work? OK... Well, you're welcome.