# Stylesheet\_link\_tag

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stylesheet-link-tag/190090>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 14, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stylesheet-link-tag/190090 "2010-06-14T18:34:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stylesheet-link-tag/190090/1 "2010-06-14T18:34:27Z")

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I know that the following statement loads the scaffold stylesheet, but  
what exactly does stylesheet\_link\_tag do here?

\<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag ‘scaffold’ %\>

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stylesheet-link-tag/190090/2 "2010-06-14T19:01:28Z")

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Abder-rahman Ali wrote:

> I know that the following statement loads the scaffold stylesheet, but  
> what exactly does stylesheet\_link\_tag do here?
> 
> \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag ‘scaffold’ %\>

Read the docs and look at the generated HTML, and all will become clear.

> Thanks.

Best,  
–Â  
Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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**Author:** ![swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@swengineer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/swengineer)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stylesheet-link-tag/190090/3 "2010-06-17T16:22:18Z")

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## stylesheet\_link\_tag returns a stylesheet link tag for the sources specified as arguments. Basically you do not need to specify the .css extension. It is appended automatically. If you have several CSS files in the stylesheets directory, you can include _all_ styles using :all as the source.

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