# Can't get css to work

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cant-get-css-to-work/71598>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 26, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cant-get-css-to-work/71598 "2016-01-26T02:36:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cant-get-css-to-work/71598/1 "2016-01-26T02:36:43Z")

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Hello,

I created a bare bones rails app with the sole purpose of trying to add css styling to a webpage via the stylesheet\_link\_tag method. I am getting an error that looks like this:

JSON::ParserError in Home#index

and I have no idea why.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Attachments: [http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/11239/application.html.erb](http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/11239/application.html.erb)[http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/11240/home\_controller.rb](http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/11240/home_controller.rb)[http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/11241/index.html.erb](http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/11241/index.html.erb)

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**Author:** ![Colin\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Colin\_Law](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Colin_Law)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cant-get-css-to-work/71598/2 "2016-01-26T08:36:06Z")

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Copy/paste the full error and stack trace please (don't do it as an attachment, it is easier to follow if it is inline and easier to insert text into the relevant points).

Colin

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**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cant-get-css-to-work/71598/3 "2016-01-26T10:44:36Z")

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