Reputation: 753

HTML not loading CSS file

I am completely stumped as to why this doesn't work. It seems the HTML file can't load the CSS for some reason, even though both are in the same directory. Any idea what might be the problem?

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Home Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" media="screen" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1100">
</head>
<body>
<div id="main"> Hello </div>
</body>
</html>

style.css

body{
    background-color: #F9F9F9;
    background-image: url(images/bg3.png);
    background-position: center top;
    background-repeat: repeat;
    text-shadow: #FFFFFF 0px 1px 0px;
    font-family: "Georgia", "Times", serif;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

a{
    text-decoration: none;
}

#main{
    margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
    width: 1000px;
    min-height: 500px;
    padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;
}

The above doesn't work. Adding the css inline in index.html works fine though

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Homepage</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
    body {
        background-color: #F9F9F9;
        background-image: url(images/bg3.png);
        background-position: center top;
        background-repeat: repeat;
        text-shadow: #FFFFFF 0px 1px 0px;
        font-family: "Georgia", "Times", serif;
        -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    }
    a {
        text-decoration: none;
    }
    #main {
        margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
        width: 1000px;
        min-height: 500px;
        padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;
    }
</style>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1100">
</head>
<body>
    <div id="main"> Hello </div>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 34

Answers (27)

Blay

Reputation: 151

My code looked nearly identical, and I've fixed it by modifying the server code not to return the Content-Type: text/plain header. I made it return no Content-Type header, but modifying it to return text/css would probably work too. I also didn't need to add type="text/css" to the link tag for this to work.

Upvotes: 0

user14962543

Reputation: 11

HTML was not loading my css because i had placed the style.css in template folder rather it should be in static folder . After replacing my file to static folder it worked for me

Upvotes: 0

Za3tar 212

Reputation: 1

guys the best thing to try is to refreash the whole website by pressing ctrl + F5 on mac it is CMD + R

Upvotes: -2

MapGurl

Reputation: 31

I found myself out here looking for an answer and figured out that my issue was a missing character - spelling is important.

<link href="tss_layout.css" rel=styleheet" />

once I put the s in the middle of stylesheet - worked like a charm.

Upvotes: 3

Fares Ars

Reputation: 7

i have the same probleme, i always change the "style.css" to "styles.css" or any other name and it worked fine for me.

Upvotes: 0

Heila Al-Mogren

Reputation: 237

I had similar problem.. my code was working fine but suddenly css sheets stopped working.. after some detection I found out that somehow the MIME of style sheet was changed from type="text/css" to "text-css".. Idk how they were changed since the code was working few hours ago but however I changed it and it worked fine. hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Self Dot

Reputation: 362

After digging and digging on this issue, for me it was solved by Johannes on another thread: Local CSS file is not loading from HTML

The type attribute in your link tag has typographical quote characters: type=“text/css”. Try to change these to "plain" quotes like type="text/css"

Upvotes: 2

Wallace

Reputation: 17489

Here is another cause to add to the collection on this page. In this code...

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

...I misspelled rel as ref.

Upvotes: 1

Zizzipupp

Reputation: 1361

Not sure this is valuable, but I will leave this here for others. Making sure that "Anonymous Authentication" was set to "Enabled" loaded my CSS file correctly.

To do that in Visual Studio 2019:

Select your solution's name, right click, and hit "properties"
Navigate to the "Properties" frame, typically in the bottom right corner
Ensure that "Anonymous authentication" is set to "Enabled" as shown below

Upvotes: 1

ziligy

Reputation: 1497

Your css file should be defined as UTF-8. Put this in the first line of you css file.

@charset "UTF-8";

Upvotes: 5

pv abhilash

Reputation: 1

I was having similar problem but resolved changing the Style.css to style.css Because of this name caps letter "S"change it was throwing 404 error we won't notice small changes in my system it was working but when I hosted in cloud it was throwing this error make sure this all being checked after uploading in cloud

Upvotes: 0

user10496917

Reputation: 1

This may be a 'special' case but was fiddling with this piece of code:

ForceType application/x-httpd-php SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

As a quick test for extentionless file handling, when a similar problem occurred.

Some but not all php files thereafter treated the css files as php and thus succesfully loaded the css but not handled it as css, thus zero rules were executed when checking f12 style editor.

Perhaps something similar might occur to any-one else here and this tidbit might help.

Upvotes: 0

Azzaz

Reputation: 124

Also make sure your link tag's media attribute has a valid value, in my case, I was using WordPress CMS and passed the boolean value true in the media field so it showed like that.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css" media="1">

That's why it was giving error. There are three main attributes on which the css style loading depends.

Make sure that your link tag's relation rel attribute's value must be valid for a css file i.e. stylesheet.
Make sure that your link tag's target href attribute's value must be pointing to a valid an existing Cascading Stylesheet file. Like in your case it's ./style.css.

Remember that you can use both absolute and relative paths in the href attribute's value. That means if your file style.css is present at the root i.e. / then you can also use /style.css in the href attribute's value or else if the file is present in the same directory in which your HTML file is present then you can use ./style.css as the value in your link tag's href attribute's value.
Make sure that your link tag's media attribute should be one of the following.
1. For every device you can use the all keyword as your media attributes's value.
2. For PC's and laptops only you can use the screen as your media attribute's value.
3. For webpage prints you can use the print keyword as your media attributes's value. Note that it also applies when you press the Print Screen button to capture the screen's image.
4. At last for screen readers you can use the speech keyword as your `media attribute's value.

By following these rules your HTML structure for link tag will be.

Upvotes: 4

rbashish

Reputation: 2153

Well I too had the exactly same question. And everything was okay with my CSS link. Why html was not loading the CSS file was due to its position (as in my case).

Well I had my custom CSS defined in the wrong place and that is why the webpage was not accessing it. Then I started to test and place the CSS link to different place and voila it worked for me.

I had read somewhere that we should place custom CSS right after Bootstrap CSS so I did but then it was not loading it. So I changed the position and it worked.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 4

Hadi

Reputation: 11

I had a similar problem and tested different ways to solve it.

Eventually I understood that my index.htm file had been saved with "Unicode" encoding (for using Farsi characters in my page) while my .css file had been save with "ANSI" format.

I changed the encoding of my .css file to "Unicode" with Notepad and the problem got solved.

Upvotes: 1

Tejas

Reputation: 45

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

Upvotes: 1

Maximilian Lever

Reputation: 21

I had been facing the same issue,

For Chrome and Firefox but everything was working how it should in internet explorer. I found that making the CSS file UTF-8 made it work for chrome.

Upvotes: 1

Poode

Reputation: 1752

Well I faced this issue today and as workaround (not the best) I did below

<script type="text/javascript" src="testWeb/scripts/inline.31e1fb380eb7cf3d75b1.bundle.js"></script>

where testWeb is my root app folder in my htdoc dir. in windows (using xampp) or in /var/www/html directory as for some reason I do not know yet

<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/inline.31e1fb380eb7cf3d75b1.bundle.js"></script>

not loading while html index file beside scripts folder in same directory.

Upvotes: 0

Muhammad Majid

Reputation: 7

Use the following steps to load .CSS file its very simple.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path_here.css">

note: 1--> don't forget to write "stylesheet" in rel attribute. 2--> use correct path e.g: D:\folder1\forlder2\folder3\file.css"

Now where ever directory you are in, you can load your .css file exactly path you mention.

Regards! Muhammad Majid.

Upvotes: -1

sharkySharks

Reputation: 4634

With HTML5 all you need is the rel, not even the type.

<link href="custom.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>

Upvotes: 4

Stan Ralph

Reputation: 61

I have struggled with this same problem (Ubuntu 16.04, Bluefish editor, FireFox, Google Chrome.

Solution: Clear browsing data in Chrome "Settings > Advanced Settings > Clear Browsing Data", In Firefox, "Open Menu image top right tool bar 'Preferences' > Advanced ", look for this image in the menu: Cached Web Content click the button "Clear Now". Browser's cache the .css file and if it has not changed they usually won't reload it. So when you change your .css file clear this web cache and it should work unless a problem exists in your .css file. Peace, Stan

Upvotes: 6

Mandla Vasavi

Reputation: 1

Add type="text/css" It worked for me.

Upvotes: -4

Simon West

Reputation: 3788

Add

type="text/css"

to your link tag

While this may no longer be necessary in modern browsers the HTML4 specification declared this a required attribute.

type = content-type [CI]

This attribute specifies the style sheet language of the element's contents and overrides the default style sheet language. The style sheet language is specified as a content type (e.g., "text/css"). Authors must supply a value for this attribute; there is no default value for this attribute.

Upvotes: 26

hayonj

Reputation: 1449

You have to add type="text/css" you can also specify href="./style.css" which the . specifies the current directory

Upvotes: 10

w3uiguru

Reputation: 5895

As per you said your both files are in same directory. 1. index.html and 2. style.css

I have copied your code and run it in my local machine its working fine there is no issues.

According to me your browser is not refreshing the file so you can refresh/reload the entire page by pressing CTRL + F5 in windows for mac CMD + R.

Try it if still getting problem then you can test it by using firebug tool for firefox.

For IE8 and Google Chrome you can check it by pressing F12 your developer tool will pop-up and you can see the Html and css.

Still you have any problem please comment so we can help you.

Upvotes: 12

Ghost Answer

Reputation: 1498

Check both files in the same directory and then try this

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

Upvotes: 16

Koen Peters

Reputation: 12916

You could try this:

<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"/>

Make sure that the browser actually makes the request and doesn't return a 404.

Upvotes: 3

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