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Why <link> and not <style>?

Why do we print this:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='/file.css' />

Instead of this:

<style type='text/css' src='/file.css' />

The reason this seems unintuitive is because we use a tag <style>for inline CSS (just like we use a tag <script>for inline and external Javascript).

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Of course, you can use the tag if you want, but this only works when your CSS code is embedded in the html file, in which case it will look like this:

<style media="screen" type="text/css">

Add style rules here

</style>

When you use a tag, you "link" the external resource to the current document, so we use the "link" tag.

This is the definition from W3:

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