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Asked: 2026-06-13T23:30:05+00:00

I am trying to link a css i created in eclipse to the jsp

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I am trying to link a css i created in eclipse to the jsp and when i run the project i get no results in my browser. I’ve tried it in multiple ways, by putting

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/first.css" type="text/css">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="boe/WebContent/first.css" type="text/css">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="(my full path to the file)" type="text/css">

I’ve tried so much that i don’t remember how i got it to not error out. i am getting this

Tag (link) should be an empty-element tag.

as the caution error.

i can not find any step by steps on creating the css and making it link to the jsp, so it can show up in my browser.

here is my code for both the jsp and the css.

jsp:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/first.css" type="text/css">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>TestPage - Test1</title>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="page-container">Hello World</div>
    <%Date d = new Date(session.getLastAccessedTime());%>
    this page was last viewed <%= d.toString() %>
</body>
</html>

css:

@CHARSET "UTF-8";
html, body {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}

#page-container {
    width: 760px;
    margin: auto;
    background: red;
}

any help on finding a step by step or if you have a good explanation, it would be much appreciated. Thank you

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  1. Editorial Team

    Tag (link) should be an empty-element tag.

    This error message is telling you that your link tag needs a closing slash:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/first.css" type="text/css" /> <-- see the closing '/'

    If that doesn’t fix it, my guess is that your path is not quite right.

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