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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Getting Started with CSS Importing Style Sheets with @import

Posted by Dennis Pilat
Dennis Pilat
2,115 Points

Normalize.css and @import

I am trying to import my main.css, in this video Guil calls it style.css, into normalize.css; however, I do not see a change in the website? Why?

You can see the normalize.css code here: https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/3.0.2/normalize.css

on line 1 of normalize.css I have

@import "main.css"; (main.css and normalize.css are in the same folder.)

and in my html header I have <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>New York</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> </head>

1 Answer

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points
Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

Your syntax looks correct, but if you're using normalize.css, you should always make sure that it's included first before any other css files. Personally I wouldn't use import inside normalize.css at all, keep that file as it is so you can easily update it if needed. Better idea would be to add your main.css in your html file.