I don't understand what is going on here for quite a while, but it was quite an interesting problem ME and IE11 were doing.
I was following Bob Tabor lesson on "HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners" Lesson 3 and discovered this weird fluk. This problem existed in both ME and IE11; however, Chrome doesn't have the same problem.
If you run across this similar error, check the box below "Unblock" on each file and click "OK" than everything works like it should in ME and IE11.
Beyond that, to me it looks like the other common errors:
- Check to make sure the css file is "style.css" and not "style.css.txt."
- Make sure it is the same directory as the html file.
MSDN jbeen19