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

Posted by R R
R R
1,570 Points

can't see updates made through external css

Trying to change - with no luck- the background color to see if my external css file named "main.css" is being picked up . Anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

Here's the code on index.html:

<!DOCTYPE html> <HTML> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Name | Name title</title> <link rel="styesheet" href= "css/normalize.css"> <link rel="styesheet" href= "css/main.css">

</head> <body> <header> <a href= "index.html"> <h1>Name</h1> <h2>Name title </h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href= "index.html">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href= "about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href= "contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav> </header> <section> <ul> <li> <a href="image1.jpg"> <img src="img/image1.jpg" alt=""> <p>Image1 caption</p></a> </li>

    <li>
      <a href="image2.jpg">
        <img src="img/image1.jpg" alt="">
        <p>Image2 caption</p></a>
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="image3.jpg">
        <img src="img/image3.jpg" alt="">
        <p>Image3 caption</p></a>
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="image4.jpg">
        <img src="img/image4.jpg" alt="">
        <p>Image4 caption</p></a>
    </li>

  </ul>
</section>
<footer>
  <a href="http://twitter.com/name"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter logo"></a> 

  <p>&copy; name_here.</p>
</footer>

</body>

</HTML>

here's the code for main.css:

body { background-color: orange; }

Index.html is at the top level. main.css and normalize.css are one level down in a folder named "css."

5 Answers

R R
R R
1,570 Points

awwww, man. Thanks. So simple. Much appreciated, Damian. :-)

Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews
9,475 Points
Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews
9,475 Points

You've mispelt 'stylesheet' in your link rel's.

Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews
9,475 Points
Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews
9,475 Points

Plus you should remove the unnecessary spaces after the href= too.

R R
R R
1,570 Points
R R
R R
1,570 Points

Will do! Thanks!

Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews
9,475 Points
Damian Andrews
Damian Andrews
9,475 Points

Glad to help. Happy coding! :o)