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I've been having this issue for the past couple of days and can't seem to get to the bottom of this. We doing a very basic node/express app, and are trying to serve our static files using something like this:
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "static")));
This does what I expect it to for the most part. We have a few folders in our static folder for our css and javascript. We're trying to load our css into our EJS view using this static path:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/style.css">
When we hit our route /, we're getting all of the content but our CSS is not loading. We're getting this error in particular:
Refused to apply style from 'http://localhost:3000/css/style.css' because its MIME type ('text/html') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.
npm verify cacherm -rf node_modulesnpm installpath.join(__dirname, '/static/')
app.get("/", function(req, res) {
res.render("search");
});
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Search for a Movie</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Search for a movie</h1>
<form method="POST" action="/results">
<label for="movie-title">Enter a movie title:</label><br>
<input id="movie-title" type="text" name="title"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit Search">
</form>
</body>
</html>
{
"name": "express-apis-omdb",
"version": "1.0.0",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"start": "nodemon index.js",
"lint:js": "node_modules/eslint/bin/eslint.js ./ ./**/*.js --fix; exit 0",
"lint:css": "node_modules/csslint/cli.js public/css/; exit 0"
},
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"babel-eslint": "^6.0.4",
"csslint": "^0.10.0",
"eslint": "^2.11.1",
"eslint-config-airbnb": "^9.0.1",
"eslint-plugin-import": "^1.8.1",
"eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "^1.3.0",
"eslint-plugin-react": "^5.1.1"
},
"dependencies": {
"body-parser": "^1.18.2",
"dotenv": "^5.0.0",
"ejs": "^2.5.7",
"express": "^4.13.4",
"morgan": "^1.7.0",
"path": "^0.12.7",
"request": "^2.83.0"
}
}
-app
--node_modules
--static
---img
---css
---js
--views
---movie.ejs
---results.ejs
---search.ejs
--index.js
--package-lock.json
--package.json
Note: We are currently not using a layout file for our EJS.
I'm happy to provide additional details if needed.
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A media type (also known as a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions or MIME type) indicates the nature and format of a document, file, or assortment of bytes.
If a web server or application reports an incorrect MIME type for content (including a "default type" for unknown content), a web browser has no way of knowing the author's intentions. This may cause unexpected behavior. Some web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, try to guess the correct MIME type.
The problem is the result of an improperly named file. Our student had a space at the end of the style.css file. There were a few tip offs to this, the first was a lack of syntax highlighting in the text editor, and the second was the text editor detecting the filetype for other newly created css files but not the improperly named file. Removing the space resolved the issue.
Thank you slebetman for your help in pointing me in the right direction.
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In Nodejs app with express, we need to add the line like below to tell the server about the directory
app.use(express.static(__dirname));
This will solve the problem of CSS not rendering
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