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Asked: 2026-05-21T04:00:35+00:00

I am learning HTML and want to use an external CSS for my site.

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I am learning HTML and want to use an external CSS for my site. I have created a very basic site and stylesheet and placed them in the same directory on my hard drive. The site opens in both Firefox and IE but Firefox ignores the stylesheet.

Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? The HTML and stylesheet are shown below:

The HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

    <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" media="all"/>
    </head>

<body>

    <hr />
    <p>This is a website with a style sheet!</p>

    </body>

</html>

The stylesheet:

body
{
    background-color:#d0e4fe;
}
h1
{
    color:orange;
    text-align:center;
}
p
{
    font-family:"Times New Roman";
    font-size:20px;
}

The style sheet is save in the file style.css in the same directory as the HTML file, which is saved in a file called index.html.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks everyone for the help, but I have just discovered the problem. The file style.css was save in DOS format, I saved it in unicode format and it now works!

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