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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

barnabasadedoyin
barnabasadedoyin
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Posted by barnabasadedoyin
barnabasadedoyin
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External style sheet

Hi, on external style sheet, it auto gives me this i Sublime text2 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css">

but i'm not seeing the type="text/css" in our exampl code. Does it matter? Sorry for asking this here.

2 Answers

lihaoquan
lihaoquan
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lihaoquan
lihaoquan
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It just tells the browser what kind of document type the file is ( In this case, it is a TEXT document and is a CSS stylesheet ) , and it might use that information to do something.

This is not required in HTML 5, however, in older versions of HTML, to keep validity, it is needed.

barnabasadedoyin
barnabasadedoyin
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barnabasadedoyin
barnabasadedoyin
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Thanks panzer, I'm just wondering that the sample training didn't include it. Nice one, cheers