Css stylesheet links - where - opinions?

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Hi Preran,

I notice that you have marked Nancys answer as correct, surerly marking an answer correct in this case is for Osgood to decide?

Add to that my reply #9, is noting that Nancys answer has nothing to do with css parsing and rendering. Loading css by including links in each section, has NO benefit to the end user, as ALL css must be parsed before rendering can take place, (browsers are bumb, they have no idea if a css file is all that is required to render that section.).

Update. Bens idea about having a discussion about http2 may be helpfull to users, as there appears to be a misunderstanding about how http2 can improve file loading vs the actual rendering of a page.

The only things you have to think about are the cascade and rendering.

Most browsers upto ie11 (have not checked since) simply appended  the style sheets to the css style rendering process as they are loaded. So a style sheet loaded at the bottom of the page, would be appended to the bottom of the list of previously loaded style sheets. Meening that anything in those styles would have a higher priority, (so overide previous styles), unless you use 'important' for the earlier css properties, (thats saying important is not used by the later properties).

Also you have the question of rendering of css, as that begins before javascript has finished loading. Which may then force the browser to re-render the page if css is applied via js.

You'll like get differing opinions, but I've always like to group CSS links in the head. Makes it easier to control and work with the cascade.