Coding: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to give your website a consistent "look and feel."

A style sheet is a text file that contains the rules that determine how elements of your web page should be displayed. This set of rules is applied to web pages to provide better visual presentation and consistent formatting. Since HTML was never intended to be a full-formatting environment for visual documents, CSS was invented as a presentation solution. It allows developers to separate the visual presenation from the content of the web page.

CSS allows more sophisticated style options, more efficient web site maintenance, and more compact coding.

The current version of CSS is called CSS2. CSS3 is still in development.

Read Chapters 7-10 by Rob Huddleston in HTML, XHTML, & CSS.

This section of the website contains ten elements: Introduction, Internal Style Tags, External Style Sheet, Selectors, Formatting Text, Lists, Layout with Styles, Dynamic Effects with Styles, Multiple Style Sheets, Resources.