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Shannon Gray
2,351 PointsIn HTML, <link> not connecting to the CSS stylesheet. Can someone please help me connect it?
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4 Answers
Karen Freeman-Smith
29,248 Points<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
This code looks fine. My first guess would be that "normalize.css" may not be in a folder named css... but in the main folder maybe? ... or missing?
Karen Freeman-Smith
29,248 PointsYou could take the link out and compare to see if it's doing anything. It may be the file has changed since the video was made, I'm not sure.
jovani calixte
Android Development Techdegree Student 139 Pointsmake sure the file name is correct,
Karen Freeman-Smith
29,248 PointsAre you having the problem on your laptop? Or are you working in Workspaces? They would both need the css folder with the normalize.css file in them to work. If you are working on your laptop then you just need to make sure that the link points to the folder where your file is - so you can make a css folder and put the file there, or get rid of the css/ part of the link if the file is in your main folder. Either way should work, it's up to you which you prefer to use. I think a lot of people find the css folder helps keep things organized as the websites get larger, but on small sites keeping files in the main folder isn't usually a problem.
Shannon Gray
2,351 PointsI'm having the issue on Workspace... I'm trying to learn how to do front end web development so I would really like to be able to learn the css way! As far as I can tell my info looks exactly the same as the videos, but I'm getting different results. Maybe the normalize.css is outdated? The video is from 2014.
Shannon Gray
2,351 PointsUpdate: I can't tell you how but it just started to work. Thank you for your help!
Shannon Gray
2,351 PointsShannon Gray
2,351 PointsTo the left of my workspace I have a folder named "css" and I dropped the "normalize.css" file into it and it pops up with a bunch of information about style. Does it need to be in a folder named css on my laptop?