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Posted by alialaoui
alialaoui
2,262 Points

Why do we need type=text/css?

when we're creating our website, to link our html file to css, why don't we use type=text/css?I thought that that was also required to link html to css, but all we're using is rel=stylesheet and href=css/filename.css

4 Answers

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,443 Points

The type attribute is not required in HTML5. If however, your html page was using HTML4 or below, you would need the type attribute when linking to a stylesheet. Considering that most stylesheets are usually text/css, it really doesn't make sense to have people constantly typing that out, right?

Gabriel Roczanski
PLUS
Gabriel Roczanski
Courses Plus Student 2,136 Points
Gabriel Roczanski
Gabriel Roczanski
Courses Plus Student 2,136 Points

It's not required with the HTML5 spec, but for older versions of HTML is it required. This course is based on HTML5.

alialaoui
alialaoui
2,262 Points
alialaoui
alialaoui
2,262 Points

Thanks!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

When the concept of stylesheets was first added to HTML it was thought that other stylesheet languages (beside CSS) might be used. Historically there is XLST which is the styling counterpart to XML, eventually CSS would eclipse it the late days of HTML4 and as of HTML5 CSS is the presumed default.