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CSS link not working. Help and Advice needed. (Solved) (lemmy.ca)
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Am trying to learn web development by creating a website my own instead learning every single theory written on a textbook.

Currently am trying to link a stylesheet and favicon on my root folder into the file called debian.html and debian-post-install.html. But it's not working and I don't know why.

code used inside both html files head section are,

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles/style.css" />

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/images/favicon.png" />

To point to the root directory files or directories we use / in html instead of ../ right? Then why it's not working.

Also I need advice on how bad is my html file structuring and what changes recommended.

Solution

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles/style.css" />

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="../../images/favicon.png" />

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[–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

This seems like the least efficient way possible to solve a problem, but here we are. I'm too lazy to actually test/research this, so this is only my best guess.

HTML links are pretty much always relative. You cannot think of it like linux filesystem where / would be root. Here, ../ would likely work much better for you. Should be quick to test a few combinations.

About the html file structuring, I think it truly does not matter. There isn't a very widely used ruleset for this. No modern web application is built using raw html files, as most are single-page applications built on top of react/vue/etc. But for learning html/css/etc basics, this is probably a good way to start to understand what the browser actually will see.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

    In stack overflow i saw,

    / = root of the current drive, ./ = current directory, ../ = parent of the current directory.

    What exactly is this .../ ?

    Btw, I solved it by writing the path like this,

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../styles/style.css" />

    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="../../images/favicon.png" />

    Thank you for taking time to answer me.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    / being root directory does not apply to the web browser.

    .../ means nothing, as its not defined. Results may vary based on interpreter, but nothing useful.

    On href, I think all 3: style.css, /style.css, ./style.css point to the same place.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    On href, I think all 3: style.css, /style.css, ./style.css point to the same place.

    no, they do not. (click for details)

    those three do not always resolve to the same thing: the first and last are relative, while the second is absolute.

    from a file at http://example.com/index.html, all three would resolve to http://example.com/style.css.

    But from a file at http://example.com/foo/index.html the href="style.css" and href="./style.css" will both resolve to http://example.com/foo/style.css while href="/style.css" will continue to resolve to the file at the root (http://example.com/style.css).

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