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

Posted by Anna Baldwin
Anna Baldwin
473 Points

index.html and main.css do not appear to be linking

None of my styling shows up in workspaces. I'm not sure if I understand how to show my code here, but I'll give it a try. In the index.html file, I have: 

    <link ref="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link ref="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

And, in the main.css file, I have: 

body {
  background-color: orange;
}

My main.css file is in the css folder... I can't figure out what is going wrong... Any ideas?

2 Answers

Emeka Okoye
Emeka Okoye
2,489 Points
Emeka Okoye
Emeka Okoye
2,489 Points

Hi,

The problem is with your code.

Your link attribute should be "rel" not "ref"

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
Anna Baldwin
Anna Baldwin
473 Points
Anna Baldwin
Anna Baldwin
473 Points

Oh, yep. That did it. Thank you!