Do we need type text css for link in HTML5

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Possible Duplicate    Is type  ldquo text css rdquo  necessary in a  lt link gt  tag        Do we need type  text css  for  lt link gt  tag in HTML5

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For LINK elements the content-type is determined in the HTTP-response so the type attribute is superfluous  This is OK for all browsers

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The HTML5 spec says that the type attribute is purely advisory and explains in detail how browsers should act if it s omitted  too much to quote here   It doesn t explicitly say that an omitted type attribute is either valid or invalid  but you can safely omit it knowing that browsers will still react as you expect

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Don   t need to specify a type value of    text css     Every time you link to a CSS file    lt link rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href  file css  gt    You can simply write    lt link rel  stylesheet  href  file css  gt

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You don t really need it today  because the current standard makes it optional -- and every useful browser currently assumes that a style sheet is CSS  even in versions of HTML that considered the attribute  required    With HTML being a  living standard  now  though -- and thus subject to change -- you can only guarantee so much   And there s no new DTD that you can point to and say the page was written for that version of HTML  and no reliable way even to say  HTML as of such-and-such a date    For forward-compatibility reasons  in my opinion  you should specify the type

[css] Do we need type="text/css" for <link> in HTML5

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