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Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 Pointshow to get main.css and normalize.css to work inside my index.html
my code is almost identical to nick Pettit's at the moment and yet when I type css into main.css like the background color, it doesn't change it in the actual website. I have linked it appropriately as well. any suggestions?
11 Answers
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Pointscould you show us your "head" code in your html?
Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 Points<head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Sonny Walton | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head>
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Pointsyou might have your link information in the wrong place then, try putting it in your head section
Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 PointsI have it in the head section I believe. here
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Sonny Walton | Designer</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
</head>
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Pointsis your main.css in a folder named css that is in the same directory as your html document? If main.css is just in the same file/directory as your html document take the "css/" off of your css/main.css
Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 Pointsno. they're in separate folders. css has 2 documents. and then html is a separate folder with the index.html document in it.
David Jarrin
Courses Plus Student 11,182 Pointsok, I think you could do one of two things. Link to ../css/main.css (with two dots to begin with) or in a less complicated fashion just take your html documents out of the html folder and just put them at the same level as your css folder.
Diane Houghton
5,773 PointsTry adding the following: type="text/css" after the word stylesheet..
Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 PointsI tried both but it still isn't working.
Diane Houghton
5,773 PointsDid you try both at the same time? David is right, you have to correct your file path the way that he is telling you, and then you have to add type="text/css" to your css stylesheet links in the head.
Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 PointsGotcha. well I finally found out that for some reason, the css folder itself wasn't pushing through the content from both files. I found this out by putting the files into my img folder, then linking them that way, which worked. Then I tried renaming the css folder to another name, which still didn't work. then for some reason, when I switched the folder name back to css, it ended up working. Not sure exactly what happened, but regardless, i'm just glad it's working. thank you guys for everything.
Arthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 PointsArthur Walton
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,906 Points'''html <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Sonny Walton | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head> '''