# How to make external css files to be recognized? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 20, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-external-css-files-to-be-recognized/233107 "2007-07-20T04:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![multimediamkt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@multimediamkt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/multimediamkt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-external-css-files-to-be-recognized/233107/1 "2007-07-20T04:54:17Z")

july 18 2007 On a website which I´ve worked , there will be more than one .css files associated with the html files; In order to keep html as clear as possible I´ve tried to place the following \*\*\*\*\*\*\* : … \ \ \ \ \Anything goes\ ``` *******???????? <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="files/css/redirect.css"> ??????? ``` … Inside the file redirect.css I´ve written : … @ import url (“main.css”); @ import url (“secondary.css”); @ import url (“etc.css”); …(all the css files are into the files/css folder of course )… I´ve tested this method before with positive results but as I did this time I´ve noticed that it has not worked ; Why not ? RW