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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Getting Started with CSS External Style Sheets

Nathan Brazil
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Why do you leave type="text/css" out of your link. What is the purpose for adding this to my links?

Good semantics?

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Jonathan Cousins
Jonathan Cousins
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Jonathan Cousins
Jonathan Cousins
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In HTML4/XHTML the attribute type="text/css" was require for all link elements which linked to CSS files.

In HTML5 it is assumed that the link element will only link to a CSS file (I don't even think they can link to another type of file) so they can be omitted.

Stackoverflow has a really good explanation:

The HTML5 spec says that the type attribute is purely advisory and explains in detail how browsers should act if it's omitted (too much to quote here). It doesn't explicitly say that an omitted type attribute is either valid or invalid, but you can safely omit it knowing that browsers will still react as you expect.

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5409146/989920