wordpress stylesheet - does it have to be in the root?

[MuGeN]

can i not stick style.css along with the other css files in a separate directory?

just a bit messy thats all, i only like html/php files in the (theme) root...

 

[Sic]

you can put them where you want. You have to have a style.css file in the theme directory with that commenty stuff at the top (afaik, try without). Just link to the css in your header template in the directory it's actually in. All it means is you won't be able to use bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); or whatever it is to link to it. Oh bum.