I am learning how to use a text editor, and I've just created my first file with it. It previews with the correct output, but when I run it in the browser, it gives me a blank page.
As you can see, the doctype and html tags are in place, as well as the head and body. I am using Visual Studio Code as my text editor. Why will this not display anything in my browser? To be clear, it does preview, just won't display in browser
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>
Are you sure? It does display on mine. Is the file saved as a .html file? Also, try opening it on another browser. If that doesn't work, try creating a new file in Notepad or something similar, save it with a .html file extension and try opening it again.
EDIT:
Try using Notepad. Check if the file is saved with a UTF-8 encoding. If that doesn't work, try installing another browser or using Edge/Safari/Internet Explorer or whatever built-in browser you have.
In case someone is still struggling with this, try saving your files before you open them. That fixed the problem for me.
Possible Reasons:
You might not have saved the changes after writing the code (most likely).
Problem with the browser (load it in another browser)
Check the extension (just for clarification)
There is no problem with !DOCTYPE html tag or html tag.
It loaded on Fire Fox, just not on Google Chrome for some reason. I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time. As I have said, I am unfamiliar with VS Code. Thank you for all of your suggestions.
I had this same baffling problem. I quit Chrome, re-opened, and then I was able to open my .html files (from my Mac's Finder) with Chrome just like I could already open them with Safari or other browsers.
I just had this problem and the solution was very simple, so I´ll give it just in case someone runs into the same silly mistake. I was typing all the code in the wrong file.
Add this line of code inside your head element:
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
I would recommend to put the right path under the src with the correct file location
<script src="scripts/main.js"></script>
I was facing the same issue and none of the steps mentioned helped.
So I deleted the index.html file I had, opened my project folder in VS Code, created a new index.html file there, pasted my code and clicked on go live.
Then I could see my image on the webpage. And after that I could see the image even by double clicking the index.html file from Finder. Hope this helps.
Save your file in Notepad or whatever text generator you are using and then close it before launching the html file in the browser. Mine would not open if Notepad was still open.
In visual studio code just type in a blank page
html:5
then just press the touch "tab", it will display a basic html 5 structure to start
If anyone still needs help- It worked after saving the file on VS Code!
Just remove "<html>" a the second line it's already set in the first line
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</body>
</html>
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Just created a simple html file in TextEdit on Mac. It looks like this.
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My First Web Page</h1>
<p>This is an HTML page that I created in TextEdit.</p>
</body>
</html>
Afterwards I saved it using an .html extension, and tried to open this file in multiple browsers.
However, instead of displaying the correct layout, I got this same code on web page again: see the pic below.
The result persisted across all browsers and after refreshing the page, too. Though if I first saved the document as an RTF file, and later changed the extension manually to HTML, browsers displayed some stuff, but not as expected and shown in a textbook. Below the second result.
The intended result is from the textbook and is shown on the next picture.
Any ideas why doesn't Safari (or Firefox, Opera, Chrome, DuckDuckGo likewise) show the file correctly?
My first instinct is to make line 1 read <!DOCTYPE HTML> to see if that would make your webbrowser read the code as HTML instead of a plain text. Not sure if that would work, but I would try it.
The problem must have been with TextEdit, since it worked immediately and as expected after I copied the same text to Brackets.
A ascii-encoded text file is not the same as a TextEdit file. TextEdit will be using RTF by default which is more similar to a Word document doc type format than raw text. When you save the file, TextEdit is actually saving it to a RTF file containing your HTML text.
TextEdit can edit HTML but, in default mode, it writes the HTML for you from how you format the text in the editor (You might hear this called WYSIWYG)
You can change the TextEdit settings to edit the HTML file as text in TextEdit -> Settings but I feel you would be far better to find a more appropriate programmers editor to edit text. On macOS, you have the command line programs installed by default:
vim and nano or you can install a GUI based editor such as Sublime Text
There are a few properties you are missing, which should be included to enable browsers to parse the file correctly.
The following is a minimal snippet, passing https://validator.w3.org/
<!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<title>Your Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Your Content</p>
</body>
</html>
the doctype is a declaration informing the browser in which version of html the document is written in, by default html5
head is a container for metadata
meta charset=utf-8 specifies the character encoding
the rest are html tags you are probably familar with
Are you using any sort of IDE like VS Code, for instance, to write this html?
I ask because there are other html elements you are missing which the browser - no matter what browser it is - requires in order to fully render a page.
Those details are automatically populated to the minimum extent required to render an html webpage in a browser when you use an html boilerplate. That link will give you more info on WHY you need all the stuff in a boilerplate, but basically it's like a pre-fab template for your html page that already comes with all the basics you need there... just start adding content and you're off to the races.
On VS Code, you can add boilerplate by typing the ! (exclamation mark) and then enter; VS Code will open a dropdown to autocomplete this line to be boilerplate for html5 and when you hit enter, populate the page with that boilerplate.
Then you can simply copy in the content you wrote yourself, remove what is duplicate, and you should be good to go.
I'm embarrassed to have to ask this, but I'm really new to HTML and web development.
All I want is a simple way to display the results of HTML that I write. That is, to see how my HTML will look on the web.
I can't seem to open an HTML file in my default browser: Chrome. I downloaded Microsoft Expression and can type in HTML code but can't find a way to display its results.
I'm not going to write much HTML so I'm looking for a quick, simple approach.
Go to https://jsfiddle.net/ to play around with html. It will provide you with warnings if your html is malformed.
Here's an answer to a question that you didn't ask, but is probably what you are looking for:
Create a new file, call it index.html and make sure that the extension is indeed .html. The extension could be something you don't want if you don't have this checkbox checked on windows.
Right click your file and open it in notepad, then paste this inside it:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Simple Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>It works!</h1>
<ul>
<li>Lists work too</li>
<li>Lists work three</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Save the file (Ctrl + S or File > Save)
Open your browser (chrome or firefox), and drag the file over your tab bar, or right click the file, choose open with... and pick your browser.
You should now see the result of the HTML file.
In short, you should be able to open the HTML file in your browser. However, you may see nothing (blank) if your HTML is not correctly formatted.
Save your file with ‘.html’ extension. For example ‘index.html’. And then you can right on the file and select ‘open with’ and choose the browser that you want. Or else you can open your browser first. Then go to File menu -> Open -> Select index.html
I recently started my first program (very basic) and I ran into an issue immediately!
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gweeble.css" />
Using the code above, I attempted to attach a css stylesheet. In order to make sure it wasn't just me, I copy pasted the code from an example. And to make sure that the CSS was right, I put it in a style tag in the head of my HTML file... it worked. Next, I entered the dev tools in chrome (the browser I'm using. This is on a Chromebook using the caret editor) and the css file wasn't even there!!! If you have any ideas, I really need help!
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gweeble.css" />
<title>gweeble</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="uhhhh">
<meta name="keywords" content="google, grooble, gweeble, bored, I'm bored, Im bored, ugh, uhhh">
<meta name="author" content="">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
</body>
body {
background-color: #4542f4; }
ANOTHER SOLUTION!!!!
Here's another reason why browsers may fail to load your css file....
I've read all the responses here (and on several other sites) but was still failing to have my apparently valid css file loading into my browser (as confirmed using the inspector - right-click over code in Chrome and look at 'sources' tab).
I usually use Chrome but also tried Edge with same results - html5 code ran fine but the layout was not being rendered. Inspection showed that css file was never loaded, never mind executed.
My issue turned out to be that the html code had been copied from on-screen tutorials and pasted into Notepad ++. In the process, I ended up with the wrong speech (") marks, so my guess is that the 'meta charset="utf-8"' statement
was inconsistent with the type of speechmark in the code?
Bottom line is that changing all the speechmarks by simply deleting and then re-typing resulted in a physically different shape of speechmark and working code.
Hope this was helpful....
Are you really sure you are viewing the correct HTML file? You can also check the page source (CTRL + U) to check the markup in your document.
This is usually because of a bad link in the <link> element. Are your HTML and CSS files at the same level in the file structure? If you need to go back up a level you may need to do href="./gweeble.css" Also try doing a hard refresh of your browser (hold the shift key down and click the refresh button if you're using Chrome) to clear the cache. Oh and double check the spelling of the CSS file name to ensure it is a correct match.
I figured it out! My computer was set to auto put my files into a google drive section ☹️. The problem was fixed by simply moving the folder to downloads.
In case you are using node.js, express, and EJS as templating engines
I just found this error on my website and looked here.
The problem I faced is
if you have a CSS file in your public directory i.e. views(in my case)
Note: You can access your CSS file from Browser Dev tools.
Using Chrome, go to Network in dev. section, and then click on CSS file. And check headers.
Make sure when you link any CSS file without any error of
type : "text/css"
Correct href = ""
Now, if you still can't access it,
so the problem may be that your browser may not be accessing the file correctly. Check the path where it should be, and where you had placed.
In my case: localhost:3000/views/css/style.css throws an error
But The actual link should be: localhost:3000/css/style.css worked
So change the href accordingly, and remove extra folders coming between so that your browser can access it directly.
My website has a font error, when I open the chrome developer tool, I see the image as attached.
My error text is hard-coded.
I added a meta tag utf-8 to the head tag.
I do not understand why it's buggy, while still having one of my pages using the same code does not get this error.
Help me
Thanks
First of all use in your head section:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
Second: when you are saving your HTML files,
please try to use NOTEPAD before putting files on the server.
The reason for that is, you may use some editor that
converts your characters in a way that gives an error...
I'm at the last of my wits here. I've searched through dozens of websites trying to find the answer to this issue, but I have yet to find a solution that helps me.
Here is the top section of my HTML, linking to my CSS file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<title>Sample Page</title>
</head>
For some reason, when I preview my .html file on my browsers, my CSS code is not taken into account.
Just to clear things up a bit, I've already made sure the following are not the reasons for my issues:
My CSS code worked just fine when it was in the HTML within the style
tags. It only stopped working once I put it into its own .css file.
There are no <style> tags on my .css file.
The rest of my HTML is correctly formatted. I have the </html> tag and the <body> tags.
I've tested this page on Chrome and Firefox, and even on a different computer's Chrome. I've even tried running them as an Administrator.
I've checked to confirm that my browsers are not set to Quirks Mode.
I've tried multiple DOCTYPE headers, none have shown any signs of working.
The .css name is correct, and the file location is correct. Both the index.html and the style.css are in the same folder.
I've tried these lines of code in different orders, different formats, I've even tried other peoples' code and nothing works.
I've checked the source code for the page on my browser, and clicking the style.css link leads straight to the file.
The only lead I've gotten is that I clicked "Inspect Element" on my page in Chrome and checked the "Resources" tab, where the HTML is found under Frames>(index.html)>index.html and the CSS is found under Frames>(index.html)>Stylesheets>style.css. If I click index.html, the body is blank, but if I click style.css, the body is, strangely enough, a bit of Chinese text.
Here is a sample of a style.css I've tried:
body
{
background-color: yellow;
}
Even with the CSS as simple as this, it still won't work.
Please help.
EDIT: http://i.imgur.com/SgoFkvw.png
Read my post, you guys. They're in the same folder. The different paths are in the "Inspect Element" mode in Chrome, not in my folders themselves.
Jozef Dúc wrote in the comments (1, 2):
Open css file in some editor for example Notepad++ and change encoding of file to UTF-8
Notepad++, open file, in main menu find Encoding->Convert to UTF-8.Look again in Encoding and option Encode in UTF-8 should be checked and save file. Hope it helps :)
This is what solved it for me.
According to your screenshot
it looks like you have bad encoding in file.
So first add
<meta charset="utf-8">
to your HTML.
Then you must change encoding in CSS files. Open the file in some editor (I recommended Notepad++). In Notepad++, find Encoding in menu and in submenu choose option Convert to UTF-8. Now, look again in "Encoding" and "Encode in UTF-8" should be checked, then save the file.
i had the same issue and this is what worked for me. i realized the .html and .css files where all in one single folder that's why it wasn't working. to solve this,
open the project folder(the folder that contains your html files), in this folder, create another folder called 'styles'. Finally, place the .css file in the style folder and run your site again.
this worked for me. hope it works for you
Try adding this line <meta charset="utf-8">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
1. Ensure that CSS is enabled in your browser.
1.1 Firefox & Chrome: I recommend using Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar, it is a CSS menu (third from left if you have a newer version where the text labels got KOed).
1.2 Safari: ensure the Develop menu is visible (Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced) and then ensure that Disable Styles is not checked.
1.3 Opera (Real Opera, 12.5 and earlier): Tools-->Preferences-->Advanced [tab]-->Content-->"Style Options" [button]-->Presentation Mode [tab] and ensure that "Page Style Sheet" is checked.
1.4 Internet Explorer: Go to Tools-->Options and ensure that under the "Security" tab that the zone (either Local Intranet (if loading the page from your hard drive) or Internet (if you're uploading to a server and then loading it in a browser) are set to Medium-High.
2. Ensure that your HTML and CSS files do not have a BOM (Byte Order Mark) which is created by Notepad and other Microsoft text editors. You can disable the BOM by using Notepad++ or SuperEdi in the Save As... dialog, you will need to do so for both. NEVER USE MICROSOFT TEXT EDITING TOOLS FOR WEBSITES!
3. Running a local server? Check either the Apache access logs or the Developer Network tab to ensure the style.css file isn't coming up as 404.
My link tags work also without the / at the end of the tag. you can try that.
and you can get to element ispect and that to console. maybe the console can tell you what's wrong.