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Do you keep forgetting to link your CSS file? Try this simple trick!

Savvas Stephanides on May 18, 2023

Ask any developer about one of the most frustracting things about web development, and you'll hear one thing again and again: My HTML couldn't re...
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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Hahahaha, how is it possible to forget that? I mean, generally when you CSS that's the first thing you do!!! Also, is not April! What?

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Savvas Stephanides

It's a lot more common than you might think. All you have to do is search "forgot html link" on Twitter and you'll get tons of tweets with the same frustration. I do it all the time, everyone will do it at some point.

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Edited

Wow! I'm wondering if the same happens with <script> tags, hahaha.

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Savvas Stephanides

Yes it does. The trick also works with script tags 😀

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo)

Hahaha... welll, that's a place I'd been before I think...

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CraftyMiner1971 • Edited

Brilliant! However, I don't know if it's the way I've got VSC set up, or what. But, when i did this and ctrl+clicked on the styles.css link, it didn't bring up a dialog box, but just opened the file, like it existed already!

If only there was a way to create a fully formatted css file with all the code already in it! HAHA

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Savvas Stephanides

That's even better! 😂

No annoying pop-ups 😬

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Windya Madhushani

Nice article.

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Savvas Stephanides

Thank you so much Windya! 👊

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Yasas770

Nice one

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Savvas Stephanides

Thank you!