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Posted by Wenqian Guo
Wenqian Guo
2,612 Points

linking css

when we link an external css file to html file like the example in the video < link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css" type="text/css" media="screen">, I noticed that for the type attribute, we use" text/css", not just "css"..why is that? I'm just curious. do we ever use just "css"???..I'm just curious...

4 Answers

John W
John W
21,558 Points
John W
John W
21,558 Points

Good question. The link tag can be used to link more than just CSS (though nowadays it is almost exclusively used for CSS), and when we specify the type, we are actually specifying the MIME type, and the MIME type name for text-based CSS just so happens to be text/CSS.

Here is the exact same question asked over at code academy about a year ago:

http://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/507a8614b29a310200003391

Wenqian Guo
Wenqian Guo
2,612 Points

Thank you!

Carlos Perez
Carlos Perez
5,939 Points
Carlos Perez
Carlos Perez
5,939 Points

I don't think that's the question she was asking John W. but thank you for your fabulous expertise. ;)

Wenqian Guo
Wenqian Guo
2,612 Points

He did answer my question Carlos Perez, and thank you for not insulting me again! :)

Carlos Perez
Carlos Perez
5,939 Points

I insulted you? Oh dear sorry if you felt that.

Peter Hearne
Peter Hearne
6,803 Points
Peter Hearne
Peter Hearne
6,803 Points

well i guess its because CSS is text based code like how we also use text/html

Wenqian Guo
Wenqian Guo
2,612 Points
Wenqian Guo
Wenqian Guo
2,612 Points

Yeah..I think that's the reason :)