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

Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points
Posted by Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz
11,437 Points

When to use href or src.

What is the difference between src and href attributes. Why is it that when I want to reference an Image in a file I use the src attribute but if I want to reference a css file I use the href attribute. Thanks,

1 Answer

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

Really good question! I actually didn't know the answer myself and so I googled it and found a good answer on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3395359/difference-between-src-and-href