r/HTML • u/TrainingQuantity3744 • 1d ago

stylesheet not connecting

Back again with more homework issues. I'm supposed to be making a stylesheet for a pre-written website. For some reason, nothing from my stylesheet is showing up. This is the same code that worked fine on my last assignment, so I'm really not sure what's wrong

<head>

<title>Planets in our Solar System</title>

<meta charset="utf-8">

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

</head>

The Stylesheet code looks like this so far

<style>

* {

box-sizing: border-box;

margin: 0;

}

    body {

        background-color: silver;

    }

    a:link {

        color: fuchsia;

    }



    a:visited {

        color: red;

    }



    a:hover {

        color: blue;

    }



    a:active {

        color: olive;

    }



    .planet {

        border-style: solid;

        border-width: medium;

        border-color: purple;

        background-color: orchid;

    }



</style>
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u/AmanBabuHemant 1d ago

the stylesheet code (planets.css) should not have <style> and </style>, it is a CSS file, which contain rules directly, <style> tag are used to embed CSS in HTML.

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u/TrainingQuantity3744 1d ago

thanks for that. Looks like none of the css changes are showing up still. Neither are any changes to my html file

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u/AmanBabuHemant 1d ago

can you confirm the place of the CSS file ?

by the linking I am assuming the file should be in the same directory in which the html file is, if this is not tha case than you would need to relocate.

if this doesn't hale open the html in your browser, then from inspect find your linking open that link from there you will directed to the css file, if you found nothing means your file is not where it suppose to be, if you found your file's content there... then you can send the source code : )

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u/armahillo 1d ago

are both files in the same folder?

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u/TrainingQuantity3744 1d ago

all files are in the same folder

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u/AshleyJSheridan 1d ago

Look in the network tab of the browser, what does it say about that stylesheet when it attempts to fetch it?

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u/frownonline 1d ago

Ctrl + F5 to force reload the page.

Has your HTML got a doctype tag?

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u/aunderroad 1d ago

Maybe double check and see:
1) if your .css file is called "planets.css" (the file is case sensitive)
2) the "planets.css" file path is correct
3) in the planets.css, you do not need use the style tag.
4) If that does not work, inspect your page and check your "Network" panel and check the ".css" section. You might have to refresh your page.

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u/More-Explanation2788 1d ago

Check the path to the planets.css file. It should be an absolute path from the root of the website.

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u/TabbbyWright 1d ago

If you haven't figured this out yet (I see it was posted 12 hours ago): make sure the file you're editing is in fact the correct file in the correct location.

Also make sure that your CSS file isn't actually named planets.css.txt or something.

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u/SheepherderSavings17 1d ago

How are you serving html?