I have been using html with internal style sheets for a while now until my friend told me about external css style sheets. How can I link an external style sheets to CSS? Also what are the benifets of external style sheeting?
To link your external style sheet put this code in the head:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
The Benifets of using an External Style Sheets is that you can change the look/style of your website with only editing one file. With internal style sheets you need to type the code for every page.
Other's have answered the how-to part. As for benefits:
(as Jabel states) you can reuse the same CSS on every page (which you typically need to do for a web site)
(as jaydx49 states) you have one central place to edit all the CSS (much easier to update one file than 50, for example)
If all your CSS is in one file, and it's used on every page, that means the browser only has to download the CSS information once, and can then cache it for every other page. This makes your web site download faster.
It's easier to compress (minify) your CSS if it's all in separate files, again making the site download faster.
You have to add to your <head> in your HTML the following line:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="PATH/TO/YOUR/FILE">
The benefits are that you have more clear an clean code. And you can use it in all your HTML files that you want, and if you change your CSS code you will affect all the files that are using it.
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I have a project that contains multiple pages of HTML, which all have different CSS files to style them. I don't want to have all of the files under one project folder, completely unorganised and just a big mess of randomly ordered files. I have tried putting different folders for different pages, but when I try and use links to travel across pages, an error appears, saying that the file has been moved, edited or deleted. I have tried searching for ways to organise my files, but have found nothing useful. How can I organise my files and pages, while still being able to travel across them with links?
I believe you're trying to organize your files according to their type. As in, let's say you have a lot of CSS files. I'd suggest you bunch all of them under a folder called CSS. Now, go to your HTML files and change the CSS style, link ref, as you changed the destination. Use the following code to change the file destination.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href"css/second.css">
I'm assuming your previous link href was "styles.css". When you changed the destination of those files, you got that error. You can even bunch HTML files. However, only shift the files except index.html.
Make a folder called 'pages'. Add all your HTML pages to go there except index.html and you're good to go. In all HTML pages, you need to use the following code to link the stylesheets -
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css">
If you want to link another HTML file in some HTML file, then use the following code -
href="pages/second.html"
Till now, you were directly entering file names. Now, you will follow the procedure mentioned below -
"foldername/filename.html"
"foldername/filename.css"
"foldername/filename.js"
Let me know if you face any issues. I'll help you!
Web developers have to use <link> tag in embedding a CSS style sheet into a web page. Sometimes when managing styles, developers break down their style code into several style sheets to gain maximum code re-usability and efficiency.
However a html file or even a css file should reduce its size as possible as smaller files load quickly into user devices. When linking several style sheets, many tutorials show this way.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet1.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet2.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet3.css">
But the size of the html file can be reduced if all 3 style sheets can be embed using one link tag like this.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet1.css stylesheet2.css stylesheet3.css">
Is this possible? Does browsers support embedding several style sheets in one link tag?
No it's not possible to include multiple files in one <link> tag.
In your CSS-file, you can daisy-chain them into another file however using #import.
Lets say you have these files:
style.css
table.css
button.css
You can then in style.css do:
<!-- Including one css file into other -->
#import "table.css";
#import "button.css";
And in HTML import them all like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
However you can use popular and powerful bundling tools such as Webpack that will bundle both your Javascript and CSS files.
The short answer is: No. because href attribute of link tag must be a URL string so you can't reference multiple URL.
But this kind of optimization can take place into your build system. In these build pipelines you can have multiple css or js file in your development environment but in production you may have only one optimized (chunked or minified) file for each.
Check out Parcel as a beginner-friendly web application bundler
Also for more advance options you can use
https://gulpjs.com
or
https://webpack.js.org
I think it is not possible to define more than one file in a single "href" attribute.
Also for each "href" there is its own relation define in the "rel" attribute.
you can read more about the link attributes on the following link:
https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_link.asp
No, it is not possible to add two or more stylesheets with one link tag.
no it's not possible,
If you do, you will receive a link error you can see it in network tab in chrome
chrome screenshot
I tried doing it by creating a css file style.css in the same folder, copied the source code of the bulma link provided and then linked it to my html doc. But then, it shows no css features at all.
Unfortunately you cannot edit resources that are hosted on our CDN. Many, many sites rely on these resources remaining intact and the same forever!
You can however modify the styling on your site whilst using this resource by first including it in your website's HTML (within in the head tag):
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bulma/0.7.5/css/bulma.min.css" integrity="sha256-vK3UTo/8wHbaUn+dTQD0X6dzidqc5l7gczvH+Bnowwk=" crossorigin="anonymous" />
You can then modify this styling by creating a secondary CSS file locally alongside your site's HTML file, calling it my-styles.css for example. You can then also include that on your webpage by using another link tag within your head tag, after the link for bulma:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bulma/0.7.5/css/bulma.min.css" integrity="sha256-vK3UTo/8wHbaUn+dTQD0X6dzidqc5l7gczvH+Bnowwk=" crossorigin="anonymous" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="my-styles.css" />
Hope that helps with what you are trying to achieve!
- Matt.
Community Manager # cdnjs.com
Although I didn't achieve what I was trying to do, I guess the only solution is either copying the exact design provided via Bulma link or ending up writing the whole css code all by own which I don't really prefer until essentially needed. So, I'd rather stick to the pre-defined design provided by Bulma.
While making a personal website I've encountered a problem with adding a CSS Style Sheet.
That Style Sheet was a local one (in the same folder has the .htm file) called "Rodrigo.css".
Here is the HTML Link tag with the CSS in the hrc:
Here is a screenshot of the CSS Style Sheet (only the beginning part):
As you can see there are not HTML Tags.
Note: The CSS that I'm using in the style sheet was previously in an internal style sheet and worked, so I don't know why it isn't working.
While making the website I used the w3schools tutorials. To do this part specifically the "CSS How to... Three ways to incert CSS".
Solved
I've found what the problem was, the HTML file was encoded in a format that wasn't supported by some browsers, and was a different format to the one of the external style sheet.
I downloaded both your HTML file and CSS file, placed them in the same folder on my desktop and the CSS file took proper effect on the HTML file. I confirmed this by removing the CSS file from the folder, observing the difference in appearance and verifying the appearance was back to normal when I copied the CSS back in.
Your code appears to be correct. Try clearing your cache, trying a different browser or open the html file in incognito mode.
Edit: Another thing you can try is replacing
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Rodrigo.css">
with
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./Rodrigo.css">
Notice the addition of ./ before your file name. This forces the browser to look in the same directory as the CSS file. I could be making this up but I think I remember having problems with either links, images or hyperlinks in older browsers when I omitted the ./
So, I've found the problem. It turned out I encoded it in UTF-8 Bom( I'm not sure that's the name of the enconding type) and that was causing problems with the browsers and the external style sheet, witch wasn't enconded in the same format. I'm going to mark this awnser had having solved my problem.
The solution is enconding the HTML source file in UTP-8, or other files that are supported and enconding the HTML and CSS source files in the same format.
Thank you for anwsering, tough.
I have created a very small personal website with three different pages and one CSS file. I know to embed a CSS file into an html page is the following:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css"/>
but form some reason the CSS file only work in one page. Any advice please
Did you checked your folders structure? You may have other html file in different folders.
I suggest to use an absolute path for your stylesheet. something like:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/mystyle.css"/>
first / in href parameter is what I mean.
Edit: You may use a windows machine and upload your files into a Linux machine. Windows do not care about lowercase or uppercase, but it is important on Linux. rename all your filenames to lowercase every where and use it exactly the same in your code (check your link tags again). this may fix your problem
Sharing the link of the site would be helpful. Make sure that the line of CSS aboves goes on each page. For example, if you have 3 pages with 3 different files: index.htm, bio.htm and contact.htm (I'm having to guess since I have not gotten this info from you). Then make sure the link to the CSS above appears on each of those pages.