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Asked: 2026-06-07T22:18:46+00:00

I’m trying to teach myself html/css. I can’t get Aptana to recognize my css

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I’m trying to teach myself html/css. I can’t get Aptana to recognize my css stylesheet.

Here’s what I have for my html file (index.html):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>Josh's Worthwhile Practice</title>
        <meta name="author" content="Joshua Soileau" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"/>
        <!-- Date: 2012-07-11 -->
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="nav">
            <ul>
                <li><h4>Solutions</h4><p>what we do</p></li>
                <li><h4>Work</h4><p>what we've done</p></li>
                <li><h4>Team</h4><p>who we are</p></li>
                <li id="nav_logo">LOGO</li>
                <li><h4>Blog</h4><p>stuff we say</p></li>
                <li><h4>Contact</h4><p>talk to us</p></li>
                <li><h4>Client</h4><p>login</p></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

And here’s my .css file (style.css, in the same directory as index.html)

* {
    clear: both;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

body {
    background-color: #eee;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

#nav {
    color: #121415;
    width: 100%;
    height: 30px;
}

I have the link tag in my html code:

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

But when I open index.html in a browser or the Aptana preview pane, it just shows the plain html with none of my css pulled in.

Am I missing something obvious?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found my answer. I had left an empty css tag in the file and Aptana didn’t like it. This is my fault, I left it out of this post because I didn’t think it was relevant.

    I had:

    #nav li {}

    Sorry for not given you guys all the info, you were all very helpful and I helped me learn some new things. Thanks!

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