First off, I would like to add that I have looked through many posts before this, none matching my exact situation.
Problem:
"Lounge.html" is the 'index' html file shown below
"test.css" is the external .css file I am trying to link to, also show below
"Lounge.html" and "test.css" are both in the same folder; the root folder
All "img" and "a" elements are in working order
When I run "Lounge.html" in either Microsoft Edge, or Internet Explorer, the style is not applied to my page.
I would appreciate some help with getting this external link working.
Regards,
AA
h1, h2 {
font-family: sans-serif;
color: gray;
}
h1 {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
p {
font-family: sans-serif;
color: maroon;
}
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Head First Lounge</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="test.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to the New and Improved Head First Lounge</h1>
<p><img src="images/drinks.gif" alt="Drinks" /></p>
<p>
Join us any evening for refreshing
elixirs,
conversation and maybe a game or two of
<em>Dance Dance Revolution</em>.
Wireless access is always provided;
BYOWS (Bring Your Own Web Server).
</p>
<h2>Directions</h2>
<p>
You'll find us right in the center
of downtown Webville. If you need help finding
us, check out our
detailed directions.
Come join us!
</p>
</body>
</html>
This may be the problem of browser cache. Clear the cache and check it again. Simple way to clear cache is add some radom string after adding ? to the url. Example
http://example.com/test.html?somerandomtext
To fix this issue, if "fix" is what you would like to call it, I simply uploaded both files (html, css) to a web hosting server. The 'index' html file was immediately affected by the external stylesheet, unlike my attempt at local methodology.
Try updating the browsers.
For IE : If you are still getting the error, insert
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
in your <head> section and try loading it.
Hope this will help!
Related
I have a HTML document where one of the links is simply not working. All of the HTML files are accessed locally by this and other links, older ones (with exactly the same syntax) are working fine, but this one seems to not be linking to anything.
problematic link
<p id="nextbutton">NEXT</p>
CSS (just in case)
#nextbutton {
width:90px;
height:30px;
color:#333;
font-size:20px;
background-color:#54B6FE;
border:thin solid #666;
text-align:center;
float:right;
}
code on linked page
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Sign Up</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body style="height:2100px;">
hello world
</body>
</html>
Probably easier to outline what I've tried but has failed to correct this:
copying and pasting working links inside the div area (they worked fine)
changing the name of the HTML file
trying multiple versions of HTML file as the links location.
removing any ID links and simply having a "<p>...</p>" link with no styling.
isolating the folder to a different part of my PC (the files are part of a WINFORMS application that uses a browser tool. This should not be an issue as when I isolate the root folder away from the compiler, the problem still persists)
moving the link to other areas of the HTML document.
testing different iterations of the target page.
I know the problem is not the linked page itself as it works fine in a browser. The links syntax is exactly the same as other links I have used on the page and the filename is identical with no special characters or anything that would give a browser some problems... WHY!!!!
let me know if any more information is needed.
I'm trying to teach myself html/css. I can't get Aptana to recognize my css stylesheet.
Here's what I have for my html file (index.html):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Josh's Worthwhile Practice</title>
<meta name="author" content="Joshua Soileau" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"/>
<!-- Date: 2012-07-11 -->
</head>
<body>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><h4>Solutions</h4><p>what we do</p></li>
<li><h4>Work</h4><p>what we've done</p></li>
<li><h4>Team</h4><p>who we are</p></li>
<li id="nav_logo">LOGO</li>
<li><h4>Blog</h4><p>stuff we say</p></li>
<li><h4>Contact</h4><p>talk to us</p></li>
<li><h4>Client</h4><p>login</p></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here's my .css file (style.css, in the same directory as index.html)
* {
clear: both;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
body {
background-color: #eee;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#nav {
color: #121415;
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
}
I have the link tag in my html code:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"/>
But when I open index.html in a browser or the Aptana preview pane, it just shows the plain html with none of my css pulled in.
Am I missing something obvious?
I found my answer. I had left an empty css tag in the file and Aptana didn't like it. This is my fault, I left it out of this post because I didn't think it was relevant.
I had:
#nav li {}
Sorry for not given you guys all the info, you were all very helpful and I helped me learn some new things. Thanks!
Try removing the type="text/css" attribute. Most modern browsers will complain if a type is specified and doesn't exactly match the Content-Type header the file returns, and when loading files locally there is no Content-Type header.
Your style.css file must be in the same location as index.html for it to work.
What do you see in the address bar of the browser when previewing?
What happens if you replace index.html with style.css? Are you able to see the CSS file?
Does it work without Aptana's preview, if you open the index.html file directly?
Also open up firebug or developer tools and hit the network tab to check if the browser is making a request for the CSS file and what if any errors are being reported. Also check the response headers.
You may also want to verify what Aptana is doing to your source after it generates the preview. Does doing a view source in the preview browser show the exact same link / path to the stylesheet?
Do you have a similar issue as this user with absolute path's in Aptana's preview: Aptana Studio 3 preview problems with absolute path
I'm pretty sure aptana has autocomplete on files and other html/css tags so try
<link rel="stylesheet" href="
I believe that when you have typed this if should start to give you all the files within your folder hysterical set up. If it doesn't try a / or the likes?
try putting it in a folder for example CSS
<link href="CSS/aki.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
By some curse i cannot for the life of me get this simple css call working. here is my html code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link href="css/stylesheet2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<title>Welcome.</title>
</head>
<body>
<br>
</body>
</html>
here is my stylesheet:
body {
background-image:url(img/landscape.jpg');
}
the file is named correctly. when i assign a background-color tag to this stylesheet, i get the color for whatever i assigned. is there some rule that keeps the body from having an image background? This is absolutely incredible. HOW is this not working for me?
You need to make the path relative to your css. Since you have your css in a folder named "css" and your images in a folder named "images", you must tell the path to move out of the css folder and into the images folder.
body {
background-image:url('../img/landscape.jpg');
}
You're missing the opening quote in your URL:
body {
background-image:url('img/landscape.jpg');
}
This should definitely work, provided, as you say, the file is named correctly and is in the location you say it is.
Assuming it's not a copy-paste error, your CSS is invalid, as you're missing a matching ':
background-image: url('img/landscape.jpg');
Apart from this, you should check that the URI is correct and that the image is accessible.
And as a side note, your XHTML is invalid as well. Stick to HTML4.01/5 or write valid XHTML (and serve it as aaplication/xhtml+xml).
I've made a mobile version of my site. When loading the page however, the site is first shown without the CSS applied, and after a second (at most) it applies the CSS and renders it properly. This behaviour is consistent across all browsers (including mobile ones).
Do you have any idea, how I could force browsers to load the CSS first (which is really tiny in size) and then render the content? I've seen something about including the CSS files outside the head, but as far as I know it's against the specs, and I am afraid such hack may brake things on some mobile browsers.
Thanks!
Update
Here's the source
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Albite BOOKS mobile</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8"/>
<meta name="description" content="Free e-books for Java Mobile phones."/>
<meta name="keywords" content="free ebooks, free books, book reader, albite reader, albite books, java mobile"/>
<meta name="language" content="en_GB"/>
<meta name="classification" content="public"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" />
<link href="/stylesheets/mobile.css?1289644607" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<!-- .... -->
</body>
</html>
I believe I have found a better way to handle this...
At the top of your output file put the following:
<body>
<div id="loadOverlay" style="background-color:#333; position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; width:100%; height:100%; z-index:2000;"></div>
...
</body>
Then on the last line of your last loaded CSS file put:
#loadOverlay{display: none;}
This basically uses the problem against itself. The first bit of displayable html that is loaded places a blank canvas over top of everything while CSS loads and processes, the last bit of CSS to load and process removes the canvas. From my testing this solves the problem completely.
Have you ever used requirejs?
you could set after your
requirejs.config(<confObj>);
something like this
require(Array[<all your CSS & JS >]);
requirejs will do the cache (like) stuff for you!
requirejs api
You can ensure that an HTML element isn't displayed until its CSS is loaded with this simple technique:
// CSS
#my-div { display:block !important; }
// HTML
<div id = "my-div" style = "display:none;">
<p>This will be display:none until the CSS is applied!</p>
</div>
Because the div tag has display:none as an inline style, it will not be displayed until after the CSS is applied. When the display:block !important rule is applied, the div's inline style will be overridden and the div will appear fully styled.
Nathan Bunney - good idea that ispired me, but i think better way is to remove overlay with javascript after document is fully loaded.
$(document).ready( function() {
$("#loadOverlay").css("display","none");
});
Browsers read code from the top to the bottom, so the higher the code is on page, and how compact the code is, will affect the load time on the page. You can't really pre-load it like you would with images or something, so I would really look into caching the file, it's probably the best solution. Sorry theres no better alternative for this. But to be honest, one second load time isn't really too bad.
I am using DreamWeaver to code xHtml docs. in the program the code is valid but when I upload it in the inspect element I see double <head> tags and when I right-click to see the source file it seems o.k.
Is it because I'm using dreamweaver? what can be wrong?
the first error is : "Extra <html> encountered. Migrating attributes back to the original <html> element and ignoring the tag." - in line 3
The code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="the content of my doc" />
<meta name="description" content="this is an example document" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="rss feeds" href="linkto/xml/feeds.xml" />
<!-- scripts -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<title>The Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- content -->
</body>
</html>
Thank you very much.
No problem in Chromium 5.0.307.9 (Developer Build 39052) under Linux. I can't test it in Safari now.
EDIT: Proposed test case had nothing to do with this problem, neither could see any extra <head> tags. However, I looked at the Developer Tools of Safari and Chrome under Windows and Firebug in Firefox and all three rendered the DOM incorrectly. Just have a look at this picture and see that the first <link> tag has jumped into the body.
This problem also has nothing to do with Javascript because when turning off Javascript the result is the same, even more clear when comparing with the source code. Strange I didn't notice this under Linux.
The Developer Tools of the WebKit browsers give an even clearer picture (also notice the jQuery error message). I suspect the Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file causing the problem: as you can see the BOM is moved to the <body> of the document, perhaps dragging several elements in the <head> with it. But also the unclosed <link> elements, as shown by the W3C validator, might give some issues, although browsers usually handle this without any problems. First get rid of the BOM in your file and see if the problem persists.
And I see another error: those tags beginning with <meta ... are called meta tags, not "meat tags". ;-)
You should have a title element what you write between
the <title></title> tags will been displayed in top bar of your browser
Just make sure your
</head>
tag has the slash in the actual file you're working on. That's an easy typo.
To remove BOM from your document, you can use this php function:
function removeBOM($str=""){
if(substr($str, 0,3) == pack("CCC",0xef,0xbb,0xbf)) {
$str=substr($str, 3);
}
return $str;}