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CSS

Posted by breckconley
breckconley
1,470 Points

problems

my css thing that I'm making myself is just showing this:

Index of /

PetFacts.html style.css.

how do I get this to work?

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

can you post the head tag of your HTML, there is probably an issues with linking your css, and your html.

breckconley
breckconley
1,470 Points 
<head>
<title>Pet Facts</title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>

there it is.

Caleb Kleveter
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 Points
Caleb Kleveter
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 Points

What does your file tree look like? Make sure that index.html is not in a folder.

breckconley
breckconley
1,470 Points

no, it is not.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

It does not look like you have an index.html file.

breckconley
breckconley
1,470 Points

what do you mean?

breckconley
breckconley
1,470 Points

this is what my tree looks like

Pet Facts (the name of the thing i'm making)

css (a folder)

style.css

index.html(not in the folder, it also used to be PetFacts.html)

if you want to see for yourself, see this,

(https://teamtreehouse.com/workspaces/13292422#)

1 Answer

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

It looks like your problem might be that you don't have a file specifically named "index.html" all lowercase. You have a file named "PetFacts.html" This would be fine for a sub-page of your site but the main home page of your site should be named "index.html"

I don't know if you're using workspaces but when you preview your site the server is looking for an "index.html" file and if it doesn't find one then it will list the directory contents. That is what it looks like is happening with you. It's showing that you have an html and css file in that directory.

If this is the case then renaming your file to "index.html" should solve your problem.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

If you're using workspaces then you can post a snapshot of your workspace and that would make it easier to track down the problem.

breckconley
breckconley
1,470 Points

I also just put a link in.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Workspace links don't work.

Here's some info on taking a snapshot: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/workspace-snapshots

The snapshot icon is near the preview icon.