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CSS CSS Foundations Getting Started with CSS Adding CSS to a Page

Posted by Cecil Quist
Cecil Quist
2,851 Points

style type

why didn't we use "type="text/css" in the link tag? i.e. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/">

2 Answers

Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points
Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

This is optional in the html5 spec, so you don't have to use it. See http://diveintohtml5.info/semantics.html#rel-stylesheet for more info.

One small optimization you can make in HTML5 is to drop the type attribute. There’s only one stylesheet language for the web, CSS, so that’s the default value for the type attribute. This works in all browsers.

Cecil Quist
Cecil Quist
2,851 Points
Cecil Quist
Cecil Quist
2,851 Points

THANKS