I am using ibm websphere and creating a Dynamic web project. All of my JSP files are in my WEB-INF folder and i use servlet mapping in my web.xml file to make them accessible. This has worked fine so far. however i have problem with my CSS. as always, my CSS file is located in WebContent in a folder named css. heres my link for my jsp
<link rel="stylesheet" href = "css/styles.css">
I'm having no luck getting my css to show...
what am i missing?
The relative URLs in the generated HTML output are by the browser interpreted relative to the request URL (as you see in browser's address bar), not to their physical location in the server's disk file system. It's namely the webbrowser who has got to download them by a HTTP request, it's not the webserver who has got to include them from disk somehow.
One of the ways is to use a domain-relative path for those resources, i.e. start with /. You can use ${pageContext.request.contextPath} to dynamically inline the current webapp's context path.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/styles.css">
This will end up in the generated HTML output as follows:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/yourContextPath/css/styles.css">
This way the browser will be able to download them properly.
See also:
Browser can't access/find relative resources like CSS, images and links when calling a Servlet which forwards to a JSP
I think you need to see it from the browser's perspective, how it is the URL of the page, the context path and the current path.
If your app context path is for example "myApp" then you can do something like this to make it work:
<link rel="stylesheet" href = "/myApp/css/styles.css">
If you want to make it relative so it does not depend on the context path, then if your url looks like http://localhost:8080/myApp/myservlet/file.jsp
Then your link tag would be
<link rel="stylesheet" href = "../css/styles.css">
Firebug or the chrome console may be really helpful to understand what the browser is trying to fetch.
Hope this helps!
Related
In the app I just started I'm having trouble getting my CSS stylesheet to load. I'm used to using the asset pipeline with rails, but I'm trying to use angular for the front end, which has taken everything out of the asset pipeline.
I have the css file in public/app/styles/style.css and am referencing it in my index.html with:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="app/styles/style.css">
I have images linked successfully with src=app/assets/images/... and if I look in the sources tab on the developer console the file does show up, it just appears to be empty.
Can anyone see where the disconnect is?
From what I can see with the code, your tag could use a 'type' attribute, but that wouldn't stop it from working.
The URL in the link is 'app/styles/style.css', I assume your index.html file is in the 'public' folder?
I'd reality check the URL to ensure it's pointing right to the style.css file, and update the to use the full HTML5 format, which is:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="app/styles/style.css">
I am relatively new to CSS and HTML, but I just had a tutorial on connecting HTML documents to CSS sheets. It didn't work, and I have searched everywhere for the answer. All the sites had feasible answers, but none worked for mine.
Here is my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"/>
<title>FlyHighGames|Home</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" /> <!--Bro what does this even mean?-->
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p>Hello</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Please help!
use folder name if you saving css in any folder
<link rel="stylesheet" href="foldername/stylesheet.css"/>
As others have said, you need to use the link element:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="pathToCSSFile">
FYI the: type="text/css" part is no longer needed in HTML5
But, to correctly indicate the path to the .css file, follow these
rules:
If the resource you need is part of the same web site (not talking about folder structure here, talking about domain), you should use relative paths, where:
a. fileName.ext is all you need if the resource is in the same folder as the currently loaded document.
b. folderName/fileName.ext is what you need if the file you need is in a sub-folder of the current folder that the loaded document is in.
c. ../fileName.ext is what to use if the file you need is one directory higher than the current document's folder. The ../ can be repeated if you need to go up more than one level (i.e. ../../fileName.ext).
d. /fileNameext or /folderName/fileName.ext indicates that the file or folder specified should be found starting from the root of the web site, regardless of where the current document is.
If the resource you need is located on another domain, you'd use an Absolute Path (http://something.something/file.ext).
a. DO NOT use absolute paths for local resources! This may work but causes the domain name to have to be resolved again, resulting in a longer load time.
WARNING: Different servers have different configurations and requirements that may affect whether these reference rules work or not. For example, GoDaddy web hosting provides an "httpDocs" folder at the root of a web site. You don't have to use it, but that's where their servers expect the site's content to be placed. Not following those rules result in relative paths not working.
NOTES:
If you feel that you've referenced the CSS file correctly, you may have a syntax error in that file which is preventing the CSS from being processed. You can run your CSS through a validator (https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/) to see if it's valid.
You can also hit the F12 key with your web page open and click on the Network tab and refresh the page. This will show you all the network requests made by the current page. If you see the CSS file listed and then see a 404 message next to it, you know the file wasn't found.
The link tag is used to link to external style sheets. check your css file path try this code work fine
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>
you need to attech style sheet beetween head tag.
As other said, use the link tag, but I sometimes get an error, if I add a slash at the end as required in XHTML as it automatically closes the tag and doesn't allow it to access other parts of the page.
Create a css stylesheet.css file and save in folder where HTML file exits
Provide complete path of your stylesheet file
example
<link href="Content/css/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" />
I'm building a website locally using Apache, MySQL and PHP. I have different subfolders and I'm trying to give one absolute reference to my css file from my main header.php includes file.
Inside of header.php I have:
<link href="/Users/nicolauria/Sites/sd/css/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
The css file does not load correctly. Developer tools gives me this message "The requested URL /sd/css/style.css was not found on this server."
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Nico
You're loading this via HTTP? Then you're bound to use only "http-space" paths, which means you can NOT include the site's document root in urls. e.g.
your site's files are physically on the server in /home/sites/example.com/html, which is defined as the document root of the site. When you visit the site and request a file, e.g. http://example.com/foo/bar.html, the web browser will send over:
GET /foo/bar.html
and the webserver will tack on the document root, producing
/home/sites/example.com/html/foo.bar.html
But note that this path applies ONLY within the webserver itself. It will never be accesssible to you in this form. You can only specify directories/files within the site's document root. That means if you requested something like example.com/home/sites/example.com/other/file.html, you'd force the server to produce /home/sites/example.com/html/home/sites/example.com/other/file.html, etc...
If you want to provide an absolute URI then you must:
Include the scheme (file://)
Accept that many browsers will refuse to load file: data onto a page loaded via http:/https: for security reasons
Accept that users on other computers won't have access to your filesystem
It is far, far better to host all the resources you need on the webserver.
In Which location your header.php file is located? I mean If you have your header.php file in sd folder than use your code like this <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
Maybe this link will help you alot
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/style-html.html
I am very new to CSS.
I am putting the following line in the header of my html, but CSS doesn't load:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="static/main.css" />
Basically my HTML doesn't see the CSS file. I am probably missing a very obvious point. My CSS file is in the "static" folder of my project and my HTML file is in the "templates" folder.
While writing this, I realized that I might be directing to the wrong path, but changing it to "../static/main.css" didn't help either.
Should I use SRC instead of HREF, when using this locally? Or is it something completely different?
Thank you for your help!
UPDATED:
The project tree is as follows:
|____.gitignore
|____app.yaml
|____appblog.py
|____appblog.pyc
|____README.md
|____static
| |____main.css
|____templates
| |____front.html
| |____newpost.html
I am linking to main.css from inside my front.html
You are giving the wrong route to the CSS file. It is currently looking for the file in templates/static/main.css, which doesn't exist. You need to add ../ to back out of the templates directory, and then head to the static directory.
Example:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../static/main.css">
If the directory structure is in your root directory, you could also link relative to root by adding /. This will start in the root directory, and then look for the static directory.
Example:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/main.css">
Also, make sure you are adding that in the head of the document.
The answer was somewhere else:
I am using Google App Engine for the app development and I should've included the following under -handlers:
- url: /static
static_dir: static
Thank you for all your helps.
Chrome browser: Open developer tool (F12) and look at right top of the panel, or click "Console" tab, if the develper tool console return Not found error with your main.css file then check your css path. You can try to locate html file and css file in one directory and then change link tag to
Can you show me how did you open the html file? direct click on the html or browse through webserver project?
I'm currently working on updating a "legacy" website to xhtml/css, so that I can go ahead and proceed on a re-design. All of the pages have the header included via PHP. The issue is is that if I reference the style sheet from the header as "style.css" it looks in the current directory for the style sheet where of course there is no style sheet. Do I need to use an absolute path, or is there a better way to do this?
The line below should work in any HTML/PHP file in any directory, included/required or not, as long as the directory "assets" is in your home directory. I think i'm right in saying this is true for all "href" attributes (i.e. in anchors).
<link href="/assets/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
If you're including a CSS file with a PHP inluclude, you must know the relative path from every file in which you are running the include function - no absolute URLs are allowed.
The path to the CSS file is relative to the URL which you used to request the main PHP page (the one in browser address bar), not to the local disk file system path where the PHP page is located in the server machine. CSS files are namely loaded by the webbrowser, not by webserver.
So to figure the relative style sheet path which you'd like to use in <link href> in the HTML head, you need to know the absolute URL of both the PHP page and the CSS file so that you can extract the relative CSS path from it.