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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Use ID Selectors

Posted by Nate W
Nate W
7,957 Points

Cant link main.css to index.html file

index file

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>

    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <title>UI/UX Designer</title>

    <link style="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">

    <link style="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

     </head>

main css file

    body {

    background-color: orange;

    }

3 Answers

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Your link tag for the stylesheet isn't totally correct try this format.

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normailze.css" media="screen">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" media="screen">
Jonathan Ortheden
Jonathan Ortheden
7,044 Points
Jonathan Ortheden
Jonathan Ortheden
7,044 Points

Make sure that your css file is in a /css directory and not in the same folder as index.html

Nate W
Nate W
7,957 Points
Nate W
Nate W
7,957 Points

I used link style=" " instead of link rel=" "

Wow I can't believe i missed that......thanks for your quick responses guys

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Anytime! Sometimes a fresh set of eyes is all that is needed.