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

Posted by jacob greenberg
jacob greenberg
3,114 Points

for some reason my normalize stylesheet is not linking to my index page. Would you know why.

Here is my code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Jacob Greenberg | Developer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
  </head>
jacob greenberg
jacob greenberg
3,114 Points

Here is my code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Jacob Greenberg | Developer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
  </head>

4 Answers

Micah Cooksey
Micah Cooksey
7,151 Points

Hi Jacob,

Your code is right. Can you confirm that the normalize exists in the css folder, and paste the code here using the Markdown Cheatsheet as a guide?

Riley Hilliard
PLUS
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points
Riley Hilliard
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points

Your code should be right, but if the CSS folder is at the website root /css/ then you might want to throw in a '/' in the front of css like: 

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

<!-- So your folder structure should look something like this: -->

  |  
  -- index.html
  |
  -- css
       |
       -- normalize.css
  |
jacob greenberg
jacob greenberg
3,114 Points
jacob greenberg
jacob greenberg
3,114 Points

I figured it out. For some reason when I preview my index.html in workspace it takes me to http://port-80-hqreh2wurw.treehouse-app.com/. I have to click the h1 link in the header of the page to get to http://port-80-hqreh2wurw.treehouse-app.com/index.html which has the stylesheet applied. Do you know why it takes me to http://port-80-hqreh2wurw.treehouse-app.com/ instead of the index page?

Micah Cooksey
Micah Cooksey
7,151 Points

The two URLs you posted behave exactly the same. http://domain.com & http://domain.com/index.html are always going to go to the same destination on static HTML sites.

It may be that you had a cached copy of the one URL, but otherwise you should see the same thing on both.

jacob greenberg
jacob greenberg
3,114 Points
jacob greenberg
jacob greenberg
3,114 Points

ill try closing and reopening the browser thanks for all the help guys.