Why is my css not applying styling to React component?

Question

I'm fairly new to react and I'm adding styling to my react components so it displays a list of movies. The CSS file I created is not loading into the application when imported. At this point it only works with inline styling and I'd rather not do that. Does anybody have an idea why this isn't working?

Movies.css:

.MoviesContainer {
  display: "flex";
  justify-content: "space-evenly";
  flex-wrap: "wrap";
}

import "./Movies.css"

const Movies = () => {
 return (
    <div>
      <Search onChange={(value) => setInput(value)} />
      <div className="MoviesContainer">
        <Film list={movies}/>
      </div>
    </div>
  )
}

Ryan, can you provide more details? Questions that arise from my head when I see these snippets are: are you importing the css file into the component's file? Have you installed and configured the appropriate loaders to handle css files? — Marcelo Cardoso
– Marcelo Cardoso, Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 21:10
@MarceloCardoso Sorry about that, but I haven't installed any loaders since I used create-react-app. I'm importing the css file into the components file. — Ryan Hardin
– Ryan Hardin, Commented Jun 14, 2020 at 21:25
Any console errors or warnings? If not, then it would seem as though the import of the .css file is working... is this the first CSS file you are importing, or are you successfully importing other CSS files in this same project? — Alexander Nied
– Alexander Nied, Commented Jun 15, 2020 at 1:40
@AlexanderNied it actually turned out to be a syntax mistake. The selector in my css file had property values in quotes when they shouldn't have been. — Ryan Hardin
– Ryan Hardin, Commented Jun 15, 2020 at 14:36

Ryan Hardin · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-15 01:56:29Z

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The issue was caused by a syntax mistake of having the values of the properties in "quotes".

Movies.css:

.MoviesContainer {
  display: "flex";
  justify-content: "space-evenly";
  flex-wrap: "wrap";
}

Should be:

Movies.css:

.MoviesContainer {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-evenly;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
}

answered Jun 15, 2020 at 1:56

Ryan Hardin

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Alexander Nied Over a year ago

Thanks for following up by posting your solution! Don't forget to mark it as "accepted", so that others visiting this post are aware that this is the fix that worked in your specific case. Happy coding!

Manuel · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-14 21:12:25Z

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Your classname is 'MoviesContainer' in the CSS file and 'MovieContainer' in the js file.

If you fix that and import the file css file it should work.

answered Jun 14, 2020 at 21:12

Manuel

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Ryan Hardin Over a year ago

Sorry that was a typo, I just updated the snippet a few moments ago.

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