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Cant get simple external stylesheet to work 2

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kevint21

kevint21

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I created a test webpage on my desktop called index.html and stylesheet called style.css both inside a folder called css-site but it doesnt get the path to the stylesheet i think. Anyone see what i'm doing wrong.

<html>
<head>
<link href="C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/css-site/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body>
<h1>My heading1</h1>
<h2>My heading2</h2>
<h3>My heading3</h3>
<h4>My heading4</h4>


<pText, text text text</p>

</body>
</html>


 
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First if your under windows, the slahes should e back slahesÑ

C:[red]\[/red]Documents and Settings[red\[/red]....


Why are you using absolute paths??? Something like:

/styles/style.css should be enough.

So try doing this:

Code: 
<link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">



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Relative URLs are the way to go, but you need to do it like this:
Code: 
<link href="styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
i.e. without the leading slash. "/styles/style.css" means "a file called style.css, in a directory called styles below the root directory (i.e. C:\styles\style.css in Windows terms)". "styles/style.css" means ""a file called style.css, in a directory called styles below the current directory".

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
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This one here worked for me

<link href="styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Thanks to both of the above for valuable posts though.
 
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