in the index.tpl file which i access as
http://localhost i am able to add the doctype and other tags
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>{$pagetitle}</title>
</head>
<body>
vale of smarty variable is {$var1}
</body>
</html>
all this works fine however when i add a link tag to call a css file as
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
the code for css is
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body {
font: normal 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
this css style is not being applied to the index.tpl when i access the page as
http://localhost
how can i call the css file from index.tpl
also if i am using a jquery plugin i need to use a script tag to call the javascript files, how do i call these javascript file from index.tpl file
please advice.
thanks
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