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Seb Soithongsuk
2,190 PointsHelp please! Cannot get the browser window to respond to media queries.
I've followed the tutorial very carefully, and I can't seem to get the media query to work. I've set the background colour to red for screen sizes wider than 480px.
See my HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Seb Soithongsuk | Graphic Design</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700|Karla:400,700,700italic,400italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
<link ref="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css">
</head>
See my CSS
@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {
body {
background: red;
}
}
The responsive.css file is definitely sitting in the css folder.
I thought it might be an issue with workspaces so I downloaded the zip and tested it in different browsers but it's still not working.
I've got a feeling I'm missing something reeeally obvious here, but I just can't find it right now.
If it helps at all, the only thing I can notice is that in the tutorial, Nick's CSS is colour-coded differently to mine, which is indicating to me something's wrong. The language of the file is definitely CSS too.
Cheers.
3 Answers
Seb Soithongsuk
2,190 PointsOh dear...just realised I typed in 'ref' instead of 'rel' in my HTML.
I thought I'd leave this here as well just in case others are still having trouble.
Gerard Weppler
4,357 PointsI see you answered your own question, good stuff!
What I do when something is not working I either read each and every character one by one or I rewrite my code again. That is usually my starting point.
Seb Soithongsuk
2,190 PointsAgreed - will take that into consideration next time.