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CSS

Posted by Henry Spock
Henry Spock
20,615 Points

Why does the link to the CSS file come after the text of the title instead of nearer the top?

It seems like, if one file is styling another, then it would be linked before any actual presentation element (text, img, video, etc.) were required to be read. Granted, my understanding of all of this is very limited.

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Ideally, you'll want one CSS file to style the entire website, which you can link to in a tag like this.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

In terms of one style overriding another style, this is down to the cascading nature of CSS.

So let's say for example you did have another stylesheet in your website containing the same styles in both.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="second_style.css" />

and you had paragraph style for example, the style in second_style.css would override what was in the declaration for style.css.

In addition types of styles in one file vary in terms of specificity. For example an ID style has more specificity than a class style. It selects a single element so is higher in the order of preference.

Hope that helps! :)

Henry Spock
Henry Spock
20,615 Points
Henry Spock
Henry Spock
20,615 Points

Jonathan - I was confused, my question was in reference to the "title tags", which I had forgotten refer to the text in the web tab and what goes to the screen reader. I was unable to update my question to clarify my mistake. I appreciate the thorough answer though.