Brackets won't let me change the background colour of even a blank document using external CSS

Question

I have been using Brackets for a school image and was trying to move div tags next to each other but was experiencing no change in visuals of the code and I wanted to check if there is an issue with the external CSS so I tried to change the background colour to no successes and haven't even been able to change the background colour of a properly set up blank document.

I have been using the following to try to change the colour.

body {
    background-color: green;
}

And this is the blank html for the purpose of testing

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Solitare</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="Untitled-2.css" type="tex/css">

    </head>
    <body>

    </body>
</html>

Am I missing something blindingly obvious or is there another issue?

Thank you very much. G. Ward

Did you add the reference to the external css file in the main html page? Please post both html and css code. — MSH, Oct 18 '17 at 13:13
I have added the html code now, apologies for not initially attaching it. — G.Ward, Oct 18 '17 at 13:15
That fixed it, thank you very much. (feel like a bit of an idiot missing the obvious) — G.Ward, Oct 18 '17 at 13:18
if it fixed the problem. please approve the answer on the question. thanks — Aliaksandr Pitkevich, Oct 18 '17 at 13:24

Aliaksandr Pitkevich · Answer 1 · 2017-10-18T13:18:32.023

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probably you have a mistake at <link rel="stylesheet" href="Untitled-2.css" type="tex/css"> try this <link rel="stylesheet" href="Untitled-2.css" type="text/css">

body {
    background-color: green;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Solitare</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="Untitled-2.css" type="text/css">

    </head>
    <body>

    </body>
</html>

edited Oct 18 '17 at 13:18

answered Oct 18 '17 at 13:17

Aliaksandr Pitkevich

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '17 at 13:28

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Your code is just fine! you are only missing 1 thing a 'text' instead of 'tex'

<link rel="stylesheet" href="Untitled-2.css" type="tex/css"

should be

<link rel="stylesheet" href="Untitled-2.css" type="text/css"

answered Oct 18 '17 at 13:28

Bram

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Brackets won't let me change the background colour of even a blank document using external CSS

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