Question

I’ve been reading through a few tutorials about css, and I saw two different ways to state which css file should be used to style the page:

<style type='text/css'>@import url('style.css');</style> 

and

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

What’s the difference between them? Which one should I use?

Answer 1

There isn’t much difference unless you are using very old browsers (netscape 4.x and ie 3.x). You can read a complete lowdown on what each means here.

From a standards viewpoint, there is no difference between linking to an external style sheet or importing it. Either way is correct, and either way will work equally well (in most cases).