Newbie with CSS (where is styles.css file)

[zerod]

I'm just getting into html programming and have a basic question about stylesheets. Many sites have the line:

<link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=&quot;styles.css&quot;>

in the heading. Does this mean it's linking to a file called 'styles.css' that is stored on the server somewhere for that webpage? Or is it linking to someone elses server over the internet (i.e. is there just one file called styles.css that everyone is linking to)? Some clarification would be greatly appreciated.

zerod

 

[PerlIsGood]

The href=&quot;file.css&quot; part of the LINK tag is referring to a file on that person's/company's server. If you created your own style.css file and stored it in a directory called /stylesheets (on whatever server you're using), your href tag would look like this:

<link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=&quot;stylesheets/styles.css&quot;>
<!-- Note that href is dependant on the file you're inserting the LINK tag into. So if your file is located in /root/somefolder/file.html, you'll need to backreference to the right directory: href=&quot;../../stylesheets/style.css&quot; -->

I would check this site for more help on CSS:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

 

[zerod]

Thanks for the clarification.

zerod

 

[Wullie]

PerlIsGood

So if your file is located in /root/somefolder/file.html, you'll need to backreference to the right directory: href=&quot;../../stylesheets/style.css&quot;

If any file is referenced from the root directory you should use a slash at the beginning of the URL.

The URL should look like this :

href=&quot;/stylesheets/style.css&quot;

Hope this helps Wullie

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[PerlIsGood]

Oops! Right - what he said.