Q:

Datatable styling not working

I have a peculiar problem. I am developing a php site that required Datatables to work with it. I noticed that Datatables styling does not work when I run it on localhost be it Firefox or Chrome. My code is as follows: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title></title>
        <link rel="text/css" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css"/>
        <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script>
        $(document).ready(function() {
            $('#example').DataTable();
        } );
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <table id="example" class="display" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tfoot>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Position</th>
                <th>Office</th>
                <th>Age</th>
                <th>Start date</th>
                <th>Salary</th>
            </tr>
        </tfoot>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
                <td>System Architect</td>
                <td>Edinburgh</td>
                <td>61</td>
                <td>2011/04/25</td>
                <td>$320,800</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Garrett Winters</td>
                <td>Accountant</td>
                <td>Tokyo</td>
                <td>63</td>
                <td>2011/07/25</td>
                <td>$170,750</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Ashton Cox</td>
                <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
                <td>San Francisco</td>
                <td>66</td>
                <td>2009/01/12</td>
                <td>$86,000</td>
            </tr>
                    </tbody>
    </table>
    </body>
</html>

And this gives me a rather ugly version of the datatable. Search functionalities and filtering works but is missing styles and column reordering.
However the strange thing is that a jsfiddle that I drew up containing the same data render as expected, with all styling, etc... The fiddle link is as follows: https://jsfiddle.net/gkyya29h/
I'm using XAMPP server with firefox as my default browser. Can someone help me figure this out? I may be doing some very obvious mistake but I'm failing to see it. Thank You. 

A:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">

Your link tag to CSS is wrong. Maybe some browsers won't process it correctly.

A:

There's this simple error in link:
You wrote rel="text/css" 
Try this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.12/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css"/>

