I have been waiting two years to find time to learn CSS. I am just starting. I am using two "Visual Quickstart Guides", one on html by Elizabeth Castro and one on Dreamweaver by J. Tarin Towers. First question:
1) In trying to link an external css page, what am I be doing wrong?
I've been at it for two days. I am working on two separate pages. One I can get to link to the external stylesheet, but only some commands are applied (I know, I would have to give you each command for help, never mind for now); the other won't read its external stylesheet at all. Nor will it read the sheet I prepared for the first page. I found some advice online and created a separate folder which I titled "css", placing it first in the root folder then making it a subfolder of the folder housing the pages. Made no difference. What could I be doing wrong?
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post the code for you page, or a link to it, and post the Stylesheet you are trying to bring in please.
You sound like you are getting a little frustrated. Don't... just relax and we will just work it through, and you will knwo more when we are finished than yu know now, and you will benefit from solving the problem. IT is how we all learned this stuff.
Cd&
Thanks for your replies. Here is the code in the head section:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1
<head>
<title>Castellars Practice Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type=text/css" href="css/styles_c.css"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
My stylesheet is "styles_c.css" and as stated I've tried several ways of storing it, the latest being in a new folder titled "css" which is now a subfoler of the folder the main file is in. Here is the stylesheet (in its entirety):
h1, h2 {font-family: "Arial Black", "Helvetica Bold", sans-serif; color:red}
p {color:red; font-family: "Verdana", "Helvetica", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 75%; line-height: 150%}
h1 {font-size: 4.0em}
h2 {font-size: 3.0em}
h3 {font-size: 2.0em; color: yellow}
img {
color: red;
border: solid
}
As for how to link things with correct paths, I guess I don't know what you mean. Should I simply change the order? As in:
<link href="css/styles_c.css" rel="stylesheet" type=text/css" />
I'm only a little frustrated. I don't understand why you write a manual that says do X and you do X and nothing happens and the manual is no help. Why is coding always like that? (That's not a new question, just a rhetorical one). -MZ
You quotes are incorrect in the link tag:
<link rel="stylesheet" type=text/css" href="css/styles_c.css"/>
You are missing the opening quote on the type attribute value
The styles look fine except for:
img {
color: red;
border: solid
}
which should be:
img {
border: solid red;
}
Color is only valid for text elements, and what you did works in some browsers that are tolerant of minor technial errors, but it would make the page unreliable cross-browser.
Cd&
Also, you should include "media" attribute:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles_c.css" media="all" />
media="all" will mean it will load the stylesheet always...
media="print" will load that stylesheet when you print...
media="screen" will load only if on screen etc...
there are a few more, but they dont need mentioning here
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by: sint4xPosted on 2005-03-26 at 09:44:22ID: 13636719
<link href="{PATH}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
I am assuming you understand how to link things with correct paths, no?