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Hi Everyone,

I’m new to EE and could use a hand.  My client has a fresh install of ExpressionEngine and CartThrob.  The site is being hosted on GoDaddy.

I have created templates and referenced some CSS using:

<link href="{stylesheet='shop/styles.css'}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

The CSS does not appear to be working.  I appears in the view source as

<link href="http://lavivahomedesign.com/index.php?css=includes/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Also, I have scoured the root directory and I cannot find any .htaccess files.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Try removing the .css so it reads

<link href="{stylesheet='shop/styles'}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Thanks for the idea!  I gave it a try and that didn’t work.

I made a mistake in my post.

Just to clarify, I have this in my template:

<link href="{stylesheet='shop/styles.css'}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

I viewed the source on the front-end and it shows as this:

<link href="http://lavivahomedesign.com/index.php?css=shop/styles.css.v.1382924054" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

It looks like the {stylesheet} tag is working fine but it’s not returning anything. Try enabling PHP errors for everyone, clearing your cache and synchronising templates (if you’re saving templates as files). I usually put my CSS outside of EE so if all else fails you could do that.

Clearing the cache:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/cp/tools/data/clear_cached_data_files.html

Enabling PHP errors:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/cp/admin/output_and_debugging_preferences.html

Thanks for the reply!

I performed the steps you suggested and I still can’t seem to get CSS to work.

By saying that you put your CSS outside of EE, are you saying you simply reference CSS the standard HTML way with a path to the proper CSS file and putting the CSS files in the root diretory?

I’m going to give that a try.

Thanks!

Yup, you can just put the css in a /css folder and reference it directly.