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CSS

Posted by jasonsmth
jasonsmth
2,804 Points

Section 4 CSS STUCK!

I'm just a bit into the Section 4 video and have just created the main.css file and attached it into my index.html file. It's identical to the normalize line except of course for the "css/main.css", but for some reason no matter what I do in the main.css page no changes take effect in my index page. I've gone over it 20x and can find no reason why background color, text decoration, color, nothing works.

a { background-color: red; }

I keep trying something striking like above but get no response out of index no matter how many times I refresh and go over the link code.

Can somebody help?

Thanks

3 Answers

lazy guy
lazy guy
Courses Plus Student 2,317 Points

then something is wrong with your external style sheet link , check it out

jasonsmth
jasonsmth
2,804 Points

Sho Nuff, I had named the CSS folder in caps but put the link in lower case, thanks lazy guy!

jasonsmth
jasonsmth
2,804 Points
jasonsmth
jasonsmth
2,804 Points

Here's my index.html markup:

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Jason Smith | Designer</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
 </head>
lazy guy
PLUS
lazy guy
Courses Plus Student 2,317 Points
lazy guy
lazy guy
Courses Plus Student 2,317 Points

things like this happen all the time , all the best tough