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CSS Treehouse Club: CSS My First Web Page Color Keywords, Hex Colors, and Font Families

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points
Posted by Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points

What is the purpose of the "type" attribute of the <link> tag?

I ask because I went ahead and replaced the default google font <link> tag provided in the sample code, with the html code I obtained for a new google font. This new font code did not include a "type" attribute -- and still worked.

2 Answers

Mircea Ungureanu
Mircea Ungureanu
7,483 Points
Mircea Ungureanu
Mircea Ungureanu
7,483 Points

Hello Reuven, I was wondering that myself since I had a similar experience. While researching the subject I came across this answer on StackOverflow which explains it better than I can. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5409114/is-type-text-css-necessary-in-a-link-tag Hope it helps.

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points
Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points

Mircea Ungureanu ,

Thanks that was what I was looking for!