There is my problem:
Since I had some organization issues with my website, I wanted to arrange my files to a better classification.
Now, the folder tree looks like:
www
ressources
images
...
css
design.css
mypage1
index.html
mypage2
index.html
index.html
And now I don't know how to link the css file to the pages stored in a folder like the "mypage1" folder.
To start from my C: drive will will produce path errors once online, I tried the "shortcuts to the css file in each folder" solution too, but I think there is a far better way to proceed.
Need some help!
Thanks again!
use the link:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../ressources/css/design.css">
here, used ../ going back folder..
You can use:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../ressources/css/design.css" type="text/css" media="all">
The .. will go one directory top. Since the html files are in a directory (like mypage1), this will go to the parent directory, which is www. Then the next that should be done is to pass the directory path to your CSS file, which in your case is /ressources/css/design.css.
Related
I am working on programming a very basic show streaming site for a project, and I have multiple folders. Folders include:
HTML
CSS
Shows
Inside of the "Shows" folder, I have a subfolder called "Testshow".
How do I link a CSS file from the CSS folder into an html file in the Testshow folder?
I have tried
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
and some other things, but nothing has been working.
try something like this from your html file ../css/style.css
../ it means one folder up
../../ it means two folder up
Thank you #Konstantin Savusia !
I used ../ before asking and it didn't work, but what you recommended did work!
I just added ../../ to the beggining.
I try to link style sheets in a file with html file in different directory.
At first html document and CSS file were in the same directory and it were working well, till I moved style to other directory.
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/style1.css">
</head>
You should go back one directory back by ../. This way go to parent folder of these two files. Then start to go into css file's directory.
href="../styles/style1.css"
Its a bad approach for putting styles and html folder in different directory try to use them in same folder so that where ever your run your project either on server ,local or in different directory, it work well.
If you do that(in different folder on windows) its hard coded and in programming(whatever Lagrange it is) hard coded coding is not allowed.
Well i think you only need:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/style1.css">
</head>
Also you can use 'base' tag:
For more info : https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp
I have two folders. One called app, which contains index.html, sass, img. And second build with folders: css, js. What path should I type in index.html to access the style.css file, which is in build/css/style.css ? I tried this, but it doesn't work.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href"build/css/style.css">
Your css and js folders should be in same directory as the app where index.html is then try css/style.css
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
So app, which contains index.html, sass, img , should now also contain js and css folder. Then it should definitely work.
If keeping the file directory as is, you should understand.
*Starting with / returns to the root directory and starts there then ../ moves one directory backwards and starts there and so on ../../. In that case
<link href="../build/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet"> should work.
Include this in your html file:-
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/style.css">
If your both folder 'app' and 'build' are siblings then use this
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../build/css/style.css">
You should change it become
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href"../build/css/style.css">
Your index.html is on "app" folder and the css is on "another folder" which have the same path with "app" folder. So you need to get out from the "app" folder first with "../" then redirect it into your destination folder. If you need to get out from current folder you're in twice it'll be like "../../your/destination/folder" and coulde be more.
<img src="picture.jpg">
picture.jpg is located in the same folder as the current page
<img src="images/picture.jpg">
picture.jpg is located in the images folder in the current folder
<img src="/images/picture.jpg">
picture.jpg is located in the images folder at the root of the current web
<img src="../picture.jpg">
picture.jpg is located in the folder one level up from the current folder
Relative path is relative to the file where you put the reference. Here in your case, style.css is in build/ folder which is next to app folder that covers index.html. So if you want to make a reference to style.css from within index.html, usually you should use the relative path ../build/css/style.css.
But make sure the css file is really reachable. It depends on whether you are using a web server, what web server you are using, and what is the starting point from which you run your project.
If you simply open index.html by clicking the file from file explorer, then you can use this to make style.css work:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../build/css/style.css">
However the above method is not recommended. Normally you will want to make use of a web server to serve such static files like js, css.
I would recommend you to try lite-server which is a light weighted web server let allow you to do local development and checkout what you've been done immediately by visiting something like http://localhost:8000.
When you are using a web server to serve static files, make sure you start running it with a starting point that already covers app and build folders (such that all of the files you want are reachable), for instance, with the parent folder of those 2 folders. If so, when you want to open index.html, you are going to visit something like http://localhost:8000/app/index.html (Because index.html lies under app/ folder, you need to add the "app/"). When this layout is applied, you have at lease 2 ways to insert the css lines:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../build/css/style.css">
or
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/build/css/style.css">
What if you don't want to add the "app/" while visiting index.html? Then you could move index.html out of app folder, right into the project starting point. That way whenever you go to http://localhost:8000, usually index.html is assumed to be served. (Just like visiting http://localhost:8000/index.html). When you are using that method to run your project, the reference to style.css is just the way you were doing, which is:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="build/css/style.css">
By the way, this is also perfectly fine in that case, with an absolute path:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/build/css/style.css">
Things will go different if you are using other mechanisms to serve static files like css, js. But the core principle is that simple: make sure files you want can be reached, and the relative path you are using really reveals the path relation between the reference point and the target referenced file.
I am attempting to use Bootstrap; I am downloading example pages to build off of from the Bootstrap website. When I launch them, however, they look quite crummy in my Chrome browser.
For example, when I load the narrow-jumbotron page, the jumbotron spans the entire screen... What am I doing wrong? I have the css, js, and font folders inside the folder that I've saved the narrow-jumbotron.html page in.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Please check the source url or path of the css and other files. Possibly this is creating problem.
Firstly ensure that you have downloaded bootstrap.min.css and jumbotron-narrow.css.
Place them in the folder you are having the html file.
After that find the following 2 statements in your html file.
<link href="http://getbootstrap.com/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="http://getbootstrap.com/examples/jumbotron-narrow/jumbotron-narrow.css" rel="stylesheet">
Replace them with these lines:
<link href="bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="jumbotron-narrow.css" rel="stylesheet">
It looks like it's probably is a path issue. When you download the original bootstrap framework, you'll have a /css and a /js directory. How your new html files get access to those places depends on where you put those directories. I'm going to assume you have some bootstrap test area. Let's just call this your main bootstrap area or core file area, whatever.
After you set that up, you probably went back for the other download which has the /examples directory buried within it. The files in there are set up to deal with being a few directory levels down. When you went into the /examples directory folder, did you copy over the whole /examples branch? Or just one set of the example files?
Let's try this just as one example just to try to get things working. Then once you get it working if you want to mess with directory / folder organization and file paths, that's fine.
Go find the examples/theme directory, wherever you put it. In this /theme directory rename index.html to theme.html
Take the theme.html and theme.css out of your /examples/theme directory and put them in the root directory of wherever you have your bootstrap's root index.html file. Now your file paths to CSS files and such should be set to match what the index.html file is doing.
Go into the theme.html file and look for the lines with the ../../dist/css/ as suggested earlier.
But make them look like this... "css/bootstrap-theme.min.css"
This should now have these files getting called from the correct places. This alone should work for you.
There's still one issue though. You'll see in the theme.html file a link to "../../assets/js/ie-emulation-modes-warning.js"
You could just ignore this, but to really have things all in order, you need to get that path right. So, go find your original download of the examples and get the whole /assets folder and sub-folders copied into wherever you have your bootstrap root; that is /assets should be at the same level as /css and /js.
Once again then, fix the link to look like this "assets/js/ie-emulation-modes-warning.js"
This will hopefully get you going and give you a clear and obvious sense of how the file paths work. If you like going forward, put things into better directory / folder structures and re-do the paths. Remember if you wanted to on a real web server, (local or remote), you can always use virtual paths from the root so you don't have to keep track of the levels everyplace for such files.
In any case, I did just test this and ideally it will work for you as well.
Just place bootstrap.min.css and bootstrap.min.js in the same folder as carousel folder for example.
Then fix the path of the js file to this:
<script src="bootstrap.min.js"></script>
And fix the path of the css file to this:
<link href="bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
Try to delete "integrity" part
Instead of this:
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T" crossorigin="anonymous">
Make:
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
As integrity attribute checks whether code was changed.
That might help.
As of 2022 and the BootStrap version v5.2 the way to fix it is to copy paste the bootstrap.min.css file you get when you download the ready-to-use compiled code to the example folder you want it in and then change these lines from
<link href="../assets/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
TO
<link href="bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
This must do the trick
I've been working on a project with a HTML and an external CSS file. The link worked fine at school when i was doing it on adobe dreamweaver on a mac, but i sent both files home via dropbox, and the css doesnt seem to link with the html file. I believe i've got the file paths and everything right, but just to make sure:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Desktop/Stylesheet.css" />
i also tried removing the "Desktop/" bit from the file directory, but it still didnt work. My Index file and Css file are both on my desktop. I am using windows. The same code worked at school, so i believe it might be something to do with with file location.
please help
Thanks in advance
This is how linking works,
Let's say your html file is in a folder named "xyz". Now when linking to css, the address is related to your html file's location. So if you mentioned
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Stylesheet.css" />
it would assume the css file is in the same folder as your html, while if you linked it as
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Desktop/Stylesheet.css" />
it would assume there is a folder named Desktop inside the folder xyz, and your css file is probably stored in Desktop.
Now im assuming you've simply placed both your html and css on your desktop directly, this is not good practice as you're probably going to move these files back to school as well. Hence I'd recommend you to place both in a folder and then link to your css with
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Stylesheet.css" />
and dont forget to pay attention to capitalization, yes html is non case sensitive but when it comes to linking external files, capitalization does matter.
Your directory structure should look as follows:
Root Directory
|
|-page.html
|-Desktop
|-StyleSheet.css
If it does not you need to modify your directory structure or change the href attribute on the link tag
If it is in the same directory simply set the path to href="Stylesheet.css"
The problem is with your file location .
If you are using Dreamweaver or any other code editor, simply browse to the path of the file to insert it in link href attribute, rather than manually entering the path .