I feel stupid and like I have taking 3 steps back in my learning. I am trying to figure out the 3 different implementations of css. Doing External now. Just trying this super simple code, the colors did not show up in the browser like they did on w3schools.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Is it because I don't have a css file on my computer? Do I need to download one? Copy and paste from somewhere? I don't get it. I prefer building with the css and html on the same document because I haven't learned how to do anything else yet. I have been able to follow tutorials fine but for some reason, now it's not clicking.
CSS doesnt seem to work on index.html
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Newbie here, and I'm trying to work on designing a blog for practice, but I'm confusing myself on where the CSS should go. I have a whole separate file for CSS that I linked to, but it wasn't linking. The only thing that helped CSS show up in the test blog was when I added it to the head section of the HTML file. So my question is, when do I use a separate CSS file and when do I add it to the HTML file?
To use an external style sheet, add a link to it in the section of the HTML page:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>
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Or if you want to use a style tag, place it after </b:skin>
Under the premise, you don't care about invalid HTML in relation of <style> inside <body> (which is not that uncommon), you can assign unique identifier i.e.:
<style>
.my-class-1 {
color: gold;
}
</style>
<div class="my-class-1">Fragment Content</div>
<style>
.my-class-2 {
color: tomato;
}
</style>
<div class="my-class-2">Fragment Content</div>
<div class="my-fragment-1">
<style>
.my-fragment-1 .my-class {
color: teal;
}
</style>
<div class="my-class">Fragment Content</div>
</div>
<div class="my-fragment-2">
<style>
.my-fragment-2 .my-class {
color: hotpink;
}
</style>
<div class="my-class">Fragment Content</div>
</div>
<style id="my-style-1">
#my-style-1 + div {
color: orangered;
}
</style>
<div>Fragment Content</div>
<style id="my-style-2">
#my-style-2 + div {
color: indigo;
}
</style>
<div>Fragment Content</div>the simpler answer to your question is "Yes" and I'll elaborate on this with several examples below. A <style> tag will work wherever you place it within either the <head> or the <body>.
A style tag placed in the <body> tag technically does violate HTML syntax rules, it's surprisingly common in practice, even among some larger corporations.
There are several different methods for including <body>-level <style> tags in your project.
1. Pure HTML <style> tags (the static method)
If you have all the styles you need already written up and there are no dynamic pieces needed, you can simply write those styles into a <style> tag statically and include those in the code, as seen in this example below:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div class="custom-widget">
<h1>This is a title</h1>
<p>This is some text.</p>
<style>
.custom-widget {
display: block;
padding: 20px;
border: 5px double red;
}
.custom-widget h1 {
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.custom-widget h1::first-letter {
font-size: 150%;
}
.custom-widget p {
font-style: italic;
}
</style>
</div>
</body>
</html>2. Writing the styles into a <style> tag as text using JavaScript
If you need to load the styles into your <style> tag dynamically and you simply need plain text styles that you will not need to change much after creating them. You can create the <style> block and then inject the CSS styles as plain text as desired, as seen in this example below:
const counter = document.getElementById('counter');
let count = +counter.dataset.count;
const customWidgetStyle = document.querySelector('.custom-widget style'),
countdown = setInterval(() => {
if (count--) {
counter.innerText = `Importing CSS in ${count}…`;
} else {
clearInterval(countdown);
counter.remove();
customWidgetStyle.innerHTML = `
.custom-widget {
display: block;
padding: 20px;
border: 5px double red;
}
.custom-widget h1 {
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.custom-widget h1::first-letter {
font-size: 150%;
}
.custom-widget p {
font-style: italic;
}
`;
}
}, 1000);<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div class="custom-widget">
<h1>This is a title</h1>
<p>This is some text.</p>
<style></style>
</div>
<span id="counter" data-count="3">Importing CSS in 3…</span>
</body>
</html>3. Creating cssRules styles into a <style> tag using the JavaScript CSSStyleSheet.insertRule() method
If you need even more flexibility with how you add your styles, you can use the CSSStyleSheet.insertRule() (MDN docs), which will dynamically allow you to add and manage the styles more granularly. This may be overkill for your specific need but there's a lot of power, flexibility, and control when working with the CSSOM.
Here is an example of this method, in which I use an addStylesheetRules function example defined on the MDN docs page for insertRule under the heading Examples, here:
const addStylesheetRules = (rules, stylesheet) => {
if (stylesheet === undefined) {
const style = document.createElement('style');
stylesheet = style.sheet;
document.head.appendChild(style);
}
for (let i = 0; i < rules.length; i++) {
let j = 1,
propStr = '';
rule = rules[i];
const selector = rule[0];
if (Array.isArray(rule[1][0])) {
rule = rule[1];
j = 0;
}
for (let pl = rule.length; j < pl; j++) {
const prop = rule[j];
propStr += prop[0] + ': ' + prop[1] + (prop[2] ? ' !important' : '') + ';\n';
}
stylesheet.insertRule(selector + '{' + propStr + '}', stylesheet.cssRules.length);
}
}
const customWidget = document.querySelector('.custom-widget'),
customWidgetStyleTag = document.createElement('style');
customWidget.appendChild(customWidgetStyleTag);
const customWidgetStylesheet = customWidgetStyleTag.sheet;
addStylesheetRules([
['.custom-widget',
['display', 'block'],
['padding', '20px'],
['border', '5px double red']
],
['.custom-widget h1',
['text-transform', 'uppercase']
],
['.custom-widget h1::first-letter',
['font-size', '150%']
],
['.custom-widget p',
['font-style', 'italic']
]
], customWidgetStylesheet);<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div class="custom-widget">
<h1>This is a title</h1>
<p>This is some text.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Please let me know if there is any more context I can add to better answer your question.
Typically you embed css that is page specific. Here is how I do my css:
Global css (seperate file(s)):
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" media="all" />
NOTE: In today's web world we use a ton of plugins/themes and these plugins/themes tend to roll out newer versions so when you override these plugins/themes make sure you create a css file specific to that theme.
For instance,
Bootstrap 3.1
<link href="/css/bootstrap.3.1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Create this for all your bootstrap overrides so you can use the latest version when it comes out.
<link href="/css/bootstrap.overrides.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Page specific css(embedded):
<head>
<!-- last element in head //-->
<style type="text/css">
.pageSpecific
{
color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
When I am in development stages or the html element does not require css classification.
Simple style format (inline):
<th style="min-width: 65px;">Column Header</th>
You may have print specific css as well:
<link href="/css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
and inside this file wrap your css as such:
@media print{
<!-- print specific css here//-->
}
Keep in mind that you may want to use a css classifcation at a later date when at the time it may seem page specific. Always code for reusability!
Finally:
I like to use css minifier when I put my file(s) into production. I do the same with my javascript files using UglyJs. There is also LESS css that you can use but for now I would stick to these simple conventions or something similar.
Styles can go in one of three places.
- Inline on the element itself
- In the html page
- In a separate file
I would suggest either putting it in a <style> tag in the <head> of your html or putting it in a separate file, either will work just as well. Obviously having the styles in a separate file means you could reuse those styles on another page if needed.