css & html

leodur

I have been researching and trying everything to get the css file to link to my html file to no avail. So, I tried something simple and it still doesn't work. Both are in the same file folder.
Could you look at this and tell me what the problem is?
(index.html)
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>this website uses external css</title>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”anything.css”>
</head>
<body>
<header>
welcome to the site
</header>
</body>
</html>

(anything.css)
body {background-color: 004800😉
.header{color: ffffff; font-family: arial;}

tracknut

Try this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>this website uses external css</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="anything.css">
</head>

<body>
	<header>
	welcome to the site
	</header>
</body>
</html>

body {background-color: #004800}
header{color: #ffffff; font-family: arial;}

notes:

DOCTYPE should be uppercase
You were using funky double quotes on the stylesheet statement
Your color definitions need a # in front of them
Your 'body' style ended without a closing brace
'header' is a tag, not a class, therefore no leading '.'

coothead

...and type="text/css" may also be dropped from the <link> 😉

coothead