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 cache
rm -rf node_modules
npm install
path.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.
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.