June 15, 2020
2min Read
Merkys M.
Embedding CSS rules to HTML can be time-consuming and energy-wasting. Luckily for you, there is another way to do it. Here, we’ll uncover how to link CSS to HTML file. By using the following method, you’ll get to combine both CSS and HTML in the most efficient way.
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Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is a style sheet language that manages the website’s visual representation. Commonly used with markup languages like HTML, CSS allows you to style each HTML element and give your overall site a more appealing look.
While there are many ways to add CSS to HTML, the simplest method of doing it is by adding all the CSS rules to the HTML directly. Despite so, this CSS method carries many disadvantages. Aside from bloating your code with repetitive CSS rules, its editing process is time-consuming as changes made in one file won’t apply to the others.
To avoid these hassles, you can put the CSS styles into a .css file and link it to the HTML files. That way, one CSS file can be used to style many HTML pages.
Here are the advantages of linking a CSS file to HTML:
To link CSS to an HTML file, we use the <link> tag that you put in the HTML’s <head> section. The link will look like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" media="screen"/>
Here’s a breakdown of the attributes contained within the link:
Once you’ve included the above link in your HTML file, save the changes and enter your website’s URL in the browser. Styles written in the CSS file should change the look of your website.
While there are many ways to link CSS to HTML, the best method to do it is to use the HTML’s <link> tag. By using this method, you’ll get to save time and code more efficiently without affecting your website’s visual representation
What do you think of this tutorial? Let us know in the comments section below!
September 21 2020
is there away to let the user switch to a new style sheet will in the webpage
September 30 2020
How to specify screen size ?
Tomislav T.
Replied on November 18 2020
Hey there Andrew. You can just change the stylesheet that your website uses in the code.