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.
Related
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>
I am having a weird problem.
I am trying to build my github page site. So I am writing my html locally and then push it online to see it.
The problem is that Chrome doesn't recognize my css file when I am opening it locally. When I push the changers online or I am using another browser it work just fine
Here is how I import it on my index.html file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
</head>
And when I go to the chrome dev tools
css have turned to chinese
Microsoft edge load the css file normally.
I have tried a couple of different things like:
Using another editor
Creating the file in different directory
trying different filenames
Clearing Chromes Cache
Nothing seems to work
I have loaded again a local a site like this and it worked fine.
Any ideas?
Make sure the file encoding is UTF-8. You can use iconv or just in your text editor > save as.
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.
No matter how I link my stylesheet, the resulting page remains unstyled.
HTML:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
test test test
</body>
</html>
CSS:
#charset "UTF-8";
body {
background-color: #f25f29;
}
Both files are located in the same folder, which is test inside the xampp htdocs folder. Another website with stylesheet, which I have taken from a book in another subfolder inside htdocs is just fine. (I tried to figure out the mistake in my own page based on the working one, but I couldn't find it)
I already tried the following things:
different paths
style.css
./style.css
/opt/lampp/htdocs/test/style.css
file://opt/lampp/htdocs/test/style.css
/test/style.css (since I guessed that the localhost takes htdocs as root directory)
file://test/style.css
matching the charset specifier in CSS and HTML files (all uppercase)
using /> to close the link instead of >
inserting a space between linkname and closing bracket
sudo chmod 777 * inside the test folder (changed it back to 644)
restarting xampp
omitting the type="text/css" specification
quadruple-checking the name of the stylesheet and its path
I've had it never enclosed in <style> tags
Also always used the straight quotation signs instead of the "italic" ones
The version that I have given above is the one that works in the other case.
Edit: Clearing the cache the cache fixed it, as suggested in the comments.
When CSS is not updating on your website, it could be that the website has an older version of the stylesheet in the cache. Clearing this will make it fetch the updated version.
To find out if this is the problem:
Right click on page and inspect (element)
Navigate to Sources
Navigate to your Stylesheet
check if this is the updated version.
If your stylesheet is not up to date, clear cache and check if it worked.
For example:
Clear cache in Google Chrome
Clear cache in Internet Explorer
Clear cache in Mozilla Firefox
Getting this error for a couple of css included.
This is exactly how they have been included in the html
[link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/editor.css" media="all" ]
The files are in the same folder as the folder css which has all the css files.
Its working fine for other browsers...
Any solutions for this?
I experienced this in IE10 even if I load the IE9 style sheet. Found a solution:
Go to Windows Explorer where your html file is kept,
Right click > properties > There should be a Security message stating that the file is from another computer.....with an "Unblock" button.
Click Unblock.... problem solved. Style sheet is now recognized.