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Luke Ghislain
3,477 PointsMy background color would not change! Plz help...
Ok so this is my html linking code <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css"> Here is my main.css code body { background-color: orange; }
All of my files are lowercase, my code seems to be right, and i definitely put my main.css in my css folder. I've even tried sample code from the internet and it's still not working!
This is my sample code.
html sample code link --> https://www.w3schools.com/Tags/tag_link.asp
<head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="theme.css"> </head>
css sample code link --> https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp
body { background-color: lightblue; }
Any help is appreciated!
7 Answers
Maxime Duhamel
7,169 PointsYour link tag seems to be fine. The problem might come from somewhere else. Just to be sure of one point is your html at the root of the directory or do you have also a folder where you put your html document(s)?
Maxime Duhamel
7,169 PointsHi,
It might be because your href should point to the css folder. I think if you replace the href of your css link with href="css/main.css" it should fix your problem. If so same thing goes for the href of your normalize css.
I hope I got that right and it helps.
Max
Robert Bennett
11,927 PointsThe deprecated type="text/css" meaning it is done away with...
Your answer = <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="normalize.css"> My answer = <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
Your answer = <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css"> My answer = <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
This code will work same one I used! body { background-color: orange; }
Luke Ghislain
3,477 PointsIve tried everything and it's still not working. But when I inspect my code on chrome, it says that it failed to load the css code. But when I type in the code manually, it works! But why isn't my css code loading?
Maxime Duhamel
7,169 PointsCould you confirm that your css documents are in the same directory as your html? Otherwise it could be because the path you specified in your link is not pointing to anything.
If you have your css in a css folder, href should be href="css/main.css" and same goes for normalize.css Let me know if it was the problem you were having.
Max
Luke Ghislain
3,477 PointsYes, my main.css and my normalize.css are in a css folder. But what I don't get is I already had the css/main.css and the css/normalize.css in my code. This is my html linking code.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
Luke Ghislain
3,477 PointsThank you Max. When I moved the index.html from the img folder to the root of the directory, it worked!