Default CSS filename

Question

for html, we have index.html, the file thats automatically loaded by the webserver if no filenames are specified. Is there an equivalent for css, either from the webserver point of view, or just by convention? surely it's not "index.css" right?

Thanks.

Update: I guess I phrased my question a little poorly. I already knew that css files would not be loaded automatically. I was just wondering if there was a strong convention for default css files. Although there exists no strong convention, there are common names, as listed by the people who answered, some of which are:

• default.css
• main.css
• web.css
• style.css
• site.css

Or you can name the css file with the same filename as the html file that uses it.

Answer 1

No.

There are common names for the main stylesheet for a site, e.g. site.css or main.css, but no strong (or useful) convention.

Answer 2

The name style.css starts to look odd as soon as you have more than one stylesheet. My 2 cents would be:

• main.css or myappname.css (e.g. intranet.css) for the app
• Something like global.css for a stylesheet shared between apps
• For css for individual pages, create subdirectories named after the pages so that you can easily see which css are shared and which are only used on certain pages

If you can, I'd recommend keeping it short and all lowercase without underscores / hyphens as it is less prone to typos.

Answer 3

No there is no such thing. It probably is some "guidelines" to follow when designing templates for e.g. Joomla where you have "template.css" and so on. When I do not have such guidelines I normally name the default css "style.css", but this is a matter of taste.