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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Include External CSS

Posted by wolnie stewart jr
wolnie stewart jr
606 Points

external css

when i downloaded normalize.css and linked it with my html file the result didn't look like the instructors anyone else have this problem?

4 Answers

Peter Ramsing
Peter Ramsing
16,814 Points
Peter Ramsing
Peter Ramsing
16,814 Points

In what order are you linking it? In most cases it should be the first stylesheet that you're linking to. Do you have some code you could show?

wolnie stewart jr
wolnie stewart jr
606 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title> Wolnie Stewart | Designer </title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
wolnie stewart jr
wolnie stewart jr
606 Points
wolnie stewart jr
wolnie stewart jr
606 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title> Wolnie Stewart | Designer </title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
Justin Sorensen
Justin Sorensen
14,734 Points
Justin Sorensen
Justin Sorensen
14,734 Points

Could also be a new version of normalize.css since the tutorial video was recorded.

Vladislav Usatenko
Vladislav Usatenko
2,985 Points
Vladislav Usatenko
Vladislav Usatenko
2,985 Points

Make sure the css file is in the css folder in the file tree