# How to load CSS files? **URL:** https://talk.observablehq.com/t/how-to-load-css-files/101 **Category:** Uncategorized **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/how-to-load-css-files/101 "2018-02-01T01:42:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![tom](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.observablehq.com/tom/32/2262_2.png) [@tom](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/tom) #### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/how-to-load-css-files/101/2 "2018-02-01T02:50:39Z")
Yep! It’s all just good ol’ HTML and JavaScript, so a link element, how you’d expect, is the way to go. From what I see in your notebook: ```auto css = { var link = document.createElement("link"); link.type = "text/css"; link.rel = "stylesheet"; link.href = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/c3/0.4.18/c3.css"; return document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(link); } ``` You can shorten this to ```auto html`` ``` Thanks to some fine points of [HTML5](https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#body-ok), stylesheet links don’t have to be in the `` anymore and can be anywhere in the document. --- _[View the full topic](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/how-to-load-css-files/101)._