I have index.php which uses its own style.css.
I'm including helloworld.php which uses style2.css and JavaScript (it's an image gallery).
When I include helloworld.php on index.php, style2.css gets completely ignored and seemingly not loaded at all. And when I copy the contents of style2.css into style.css, I get the same results - nothing from the included file gets styled properly.
I'm a little bit new at this - is this even possible?
Are you including the link to the other style sheet in your headers on idex.php? Try this.
examples (place inside open / closing tags)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/style1.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path/to/style2.css">
Related
So just to be clear the code from the header.php is here:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
And if I put this next part in every other php file:
include 'header.php';
Will the rest of them have access to style.css?
Ok I figured it out. The CSS was not updating so I just had to press ctrl+k for a hard reset.
So I have a webpage where I use the same header/footer for every page:
<?php include 'header.php?>
In header link to css looks like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
they both are in the same folder.
Problem:
When I try to load page in another folder (products/page.php) - the assets wont load properly. I put a link to header like this:
<?php include '../header.php' ?>
header and footer loads properly but the assets defined in them do not.
How can I fix the paths so I would not need to copy same files to every folder.
Sorry for noob question :)
A pssible solution is to use absolute paths:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles.css">
This way your assets are indepent to your phps structure.
I have looked over the code and cant seem to see where the link between the two files is failing. My index page uses the exact same code to link the files and it works fine. When I add the styling in the header of the php/html file it works but otherwise nothing happens.
The reference that you have for the stylesheet is relative to the url of the page you're on.
For example, this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
... says that the stylesheet is at the same path that the page is on. So if the url in the address bar is https://somewebsite/admin/index.php then that page will try to load the stylesheet at https://somewebsite/admin/style.css. If the url is https://somewebsite/index.php then the page will try to load the stylesheet at https://somewebsite/style.css.
If the stylesheet resides at the root of the site then your link tag should look like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css">
This will make your page look for the stylesheet at https://somewebsite/style.css regardless of what the path of the url says.
You should make the right path, right into your css file at
Example:
<link href="assets/css/blabla.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="/app/app.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
The above is the code I'm using to access a stylesheet, but it's not working at the .
Some extra details:
This is in a .php file, but it's located within the head of an html section
I'm working on a temporary url (i.e. 'my.ipa.dd.res/mydomain.com/dir/'). This might be the reason it's not working.
Edit:
It's a stylesheet I'd like to use on several pages, which is why I'm trying to point to a root directory (so that I don't need the file in every single folder I create).
Well I think you need to store your root directory path as a string to include your css file with an absolute URL.
Something like :
<link href="{$absoluteRootPath}/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
If you remove the leading slash it will look for the css file in the folder relative to the current.
<link href="app/app.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Edit: to reuse in multiple scripts in different dirs you would need to specify an absolute path, so to avoid having to change it in multiple places when you go live (ie stop using the temporary url) you should define a variable.
<?php
// set absolute path to the stylesheet
$cssPath = 'http://my.ipa.dd.res/mydomain.com/dir/';
?>
And
<link href="<?php echo $cssPath; ?>app/app.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Depending on your php architecture you may need to define $cssPath as a global or you may be able to add it to an existing config variable. This is completely dependent on your framework.
I've been having this same problem recently. Here's what worked for me
Now on the index page, replace link rel="/app/app.css" href="stylesheet" type="text/css"
with
?php include 'style.php' ?
And on the style.php page insert the following tags:
style and /style
You can put the regular CSS between those two tags. See if that works. BTW for some reason I can't insert the greater or less than symbols without making the code disappear... Forgive me, I'm new here..
I'm building a PHP based site with this directory structure
index.php
css
style.css
bootstrap.css
includes
header.php
footer.php
bikes
road.php
mountain.php
The Problem
So I'm working on road.php and I obviously need to be able to link to both style.css and bootstrap.css, but when I declare at the start of road.php to include the header.php and footer.php it is like as if it cannot find the stylesheets and the site reverts back to the default 1990s look.
I have also found that any form of link on the page loads a 404. I'm only just starting out with PHP because I need some more power in my sites, but I just can't seem to get my head around the super basic things.
I just don't know what to do and I'm finding myself turning my back on the whole PHP language.
Thanking you in advance,
Stu :)
I can't be certain without seeing the actual content of header.php (in perticular the part where you import the stylesheets), but it sounds like you are using a relative path to your stylesheets. Something like <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" media="screen" />. This works fine for index.php, but since the other pages are inside the subfolder bikes, they will be looking for the CSS files in yoursite.com/bikes/css.
The solution is to provide an absolute path. Something like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yoursite.com/css/style.css" media="screen" />
This way, it doesn't matter if the page is inside a subfolder (or a subfolder of a subfolder) - it will allways look for the CSS file in the right location.
If you are using multiple domain names, or for some other reason you cannot hardcode the domain name, you can prepend a slash (/) to the path as well:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css" media="screen" />
This path is relative to the root of the website, not to the current directory.