I’ve been coding websites for a long time but even I was a little puzzled when I came across a Hacker News comment where the commenter described their own makeshift CMS that involves using your own file system. The most interesting part to me was when the person said they add CSS to pages on their personal projects by means of HTTP headers.

I had heard of this technique before and the person does say in the comment that this doesn’t work in every browser. But I decided to do some research to figure out how one might do this and why this would be easier than just dropping in one or more <link> elements in the HTML.

I’m sure many of you who have been developing sites for more some time now are familiar with this. But I thought I’d write it up for those looking for a quick solution. This should especially be helpful because this apparently isn’t the easiest topic to search for since the terms “HTTP” and “header” are quite common in web development (and due to the fact that Google search has sucked for many years now).

#css #incorporating #headers