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Troubleshooting 101

Use Google

Knowing how to properly search on a search engine to solve your problems is quite possibly one of the best skills one can have.

I AM BEGGING YOU. PLEASE DON'T USE AI.

You can add "-ai" in any google search to prevent google from using its shitty AI search that will only kill the environment and impede your learning.

Throughout the workshop, I've given you specific terms. Use these!! When you google something, using the correct term for CSS properties/HTML elements will let you find exactly what you're looking for.

Look for web links to stackoverflow, those are usually pretty good. ALSO, don't forget to check the Mozilla Developer Network!

I changed a page on my site, and the live change isn't showing up!

Sometimes, so soon after an update to a page's content, the browser gets confused and we have to force it to update its short term memory, called a cache.

To do this, you want to do a hard refresh. On windows it is Control + Shift + R on your keyboard. On Mac it is Command + Shift + R.

My CSS isn't working! Why?

  1. Did you spell the property name right?
  2. Did you save your file?
  3. Is your CSS file linked into your page?
  4. Is your selector targeting the correct element?

Using the Browser Developer Tools

This video is specifically about Google Chrome, but all browser dev tools are the same basically.