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CSS Not Loading

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.Dan

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Hi guys, I'm starting a Ruby on Rails web app for my class but I can't get my CSS to work.

Here is my HTML:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
	<title>Welcome</title>
	<meta charset='utf-8'>
	<link href='~/css/styles.css' rel='stylesheet'>
	<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Arvo:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  </head>
  <body>
	<div id='wrapper'>
	  <div id='header'>
		<h1>Welcome</h1>
	  </div>
	  <div id='content'>
		<h2>The new magic number is 80</h2>
	  </div>
	  <div id='footer'>
		<h4>Daniel </h4>
	  </div>
	</div>
  </body>
</html>
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And here is my CSS:

[CODE]
wrapper, header, content, footer {
display: block;
}
#wrapper{
width:66%;
margin:auto;
}

#header{
background-color:#FFCA00;
font-family: 'Arvo', serif;
font-weight: 700;
font-size: 22px;
color: #A68300;
border-bottom:solid 1px #FFE273;
}
#content{
background-color: #FFD740;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'Arvo', serif;
font-weight: 400;
color: #A68300;
margin:12px 0;
float:left;
}

#footer{
background-color:#FFCA00;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: 'Arvo', serif;
font-weight: 400;
color: white;
border-top:solid 1px #FFE273;
}

[/CODE]

What is wrong with it? I have validated both files and they seem to be OK.

Thank you!

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ZakO

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Get rid of the ~/ as people have said. Which version of Rails are you using, what environment are you running in, and where are your CSS files located?

Rails 3.1 introduced a new asset pipeline, your assets generally go in /app/assets rather than /public/assets. Also, use stylesheet_link_tag so you can utilize the asset pipeline (it will locate the asset for you and minify/compress it if in production mode).

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Sophism

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Just a note since I stumbled across this while searching for something else.

All of the answers in this thread are correct for HTML. However with RoR you are better off using the stylesheet link tag.

<%= stylesheet_link_tag :all %> will link all stylesheets in public/stylesheets.

or,

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "style" %>

This will generate <link href="/stylesheets/style.css?1337517391" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

notice the ?1337517391? The main benefit of using the link tags are the provided cache busting techniques. This is simply the timestamp of the file. If you modify your CSS file it will update the timestamp thus forcing any browsers caching CSS to update.

There are link tags for images and javascript files as well which provide the same benefits.

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