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I am totally new in CodeIgnitor. In the controllers folder I created a file named caller.php and I created a file home.php in views. In views I also created a folder named css and I created style.css in that css folder. In views I have some pictures. Those pictures are also part of design. Now I want to use style.css and the pictures. But I can't.

In caller.php I have: 

class caller extends CI_Controller
{
    function index()
    {

        $this->load->view('home');  
        // What do I have to write here to load css?
    }
}

In home.php I have:

<html>
<head>

***------what i have to write here to load css--------***

</head>

<body>

<div id="outer">
...
</div>

</body>

</html>

If additional configs are needed please mention that.

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    Your main problem is the structure of your files. The css/ directory shouldn't be inside views/, it should be in a publicly accessible folder. Commented Nov 17, 2012 at 12:49

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Leading on from what Oliver said of including the stylesheet with:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>css/style.css">

If you have removed index.php from your URL's make sure you include your css directory in the rewrite rule.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

This is assuming your stylesheet is located in a folder called css at the root of your application.

- index.php
+ system
+ application
+ css
   - style.css

Make sure that you have enabled the URL helper to use commands such as base_url(). This can be done globally inside config/autoload.php by adding url to the helper array.

$autoload['helper'] = array('url');
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what does it mean " removed index.php from your URL's ". can you explain.
yes my css file is located in the root directory in the folder called css
I don't know what actually rewrite rule is?
Have a read though the URL documentation codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/urls.html - It explains about it in there... If you've not done this then it should just work as oliver has explained.
when i write .... <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>css/style.css"> ... in home.php a blank page appears. when i don't link the style.css then the page shown. Now what can i do?
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add

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>css/style.css">

into home.php between <head> and </head> tags

and make sure the style.css is in a css folder in the main directory

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what do you mean by main directory
in the same directory as the application folder, system folder, make a new one called css and place your stylesheet in there
when i load it a blank page appears.
when i write .... <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>css/style.css"> ... in home.php a blank page appears. when i don't link the style.css then the page shown. Now what can i do?
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Thanks so much @ Malachi. <link href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/plugins/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> is my file path & not working.

I have used

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|assets|robots\.txt) RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

on my .htaccess file & it's working now smoothly. assets is my file file path

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You should keep your assets or css/js file on root directory of CI.

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