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Posted by David Schriever
David Schriever
1,777 Points

why add type="" attribute to the link element?

Hello! I just noticed that on one of the links to the stylsheets Nick added a type attribute to it, I was wondering what the purpose of this was, I must have missed that.

Also what is the purpose of the rel="" attribute? I do realize that it shows the relationship, but why is it important or necessary to add that?

1 Answer

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points

Type basically tells you what is the input, basically there are different input types, such as email, so when you write type email, the user needs to include a valid email with @ otherwise it wont work. Do you want password? just type password, and the letters will be blakc dots ( before you had to use JS to do that ) . Text is just normal text etc..

Hopefully this helps!

heck out this link here http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_form_input_types.asp

David Schriever
David Schriever
1,777 Points

Hey thanks that does make sense. Now the link that you refer to ist concerning the <input> element, does the same go for the <link> element?

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points

Link is different. Check out this track to learn about it. Do the HTML and CSS basics. You should have 1k points + when finished, and you shoudl know what link is.

In short, link is basically a link which means, if you want to connect or link your CSS to your HTML, to link it, you write link and then the path.

e.g.

 <!-- Core CSS -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/normalize.css">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

   <!-- Fonts -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/font-awesome.min.css">

I'm liking my CSS to my HTML with the link, and rel, relfering to stylesheets.

type what is that? text a css,,

href? the path to it is in th folder of css and the file name named normalize.css

same goes for the bottom one.