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Two Linked CSS Files Not working

Answer 1

+1 A:

There's a two places that I think may be the problem:

The href for custom.css currently points to a location in the current directory of the HTML file. If custom.css is in the /css directory like main.css, you'd have to add that. The file is included when you use an@import tag because the @import is relative to main.css, and it can find custom.css in the same directory as main.css
There's an unclosed CSS tag or something that is breaking all the CSS coming after it; this is pretty unlikely, but you can verify your CSS with the W3.org CSS validator.

phsource 2010-06-03 00:20:17

Answer 2

A:

This might be due to the way CSS handles style precedence, but might as well be caused by bad markup. Try validating your document or using an absolute path for the custom.css stylesheet.

Zackman 2010-06-03 00:22:15

Answer 3

+1 A:

Like hsource said, try validating both css files.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Also just try this, without that title thing with both css files in same folder, both relative to the page which is importing them:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/custom.css" media="screen" />

It also might be that because you are not using any doctype and also you are not closing your link tags, something related to that might be your problem. So try this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title></title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css" media="screen" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/custom.css" media="screen" />
</head>

GaVrA 2010-06-03 00:25:20

Thanks, the DOCTYPE thing worked :) its strange... i can't believe no one has mentioned this for the HTML5 spec. We were using <!DOCTYPE html> for HTML5, but changing it seemed to work.

Oscar Godson 2010-06-04 16:12:26

Answer 4

A:

GaVra, you were right about the doctype, etc. We should have known that, given the HTML5 doctype was being used and probably isn't quite ready for action.

Thanks!

robalan 2010-06-03 21:36:21

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