Cascading Style Sheets, also known as CSS, are the most popular and neat way of formatting an html page.
There are two versions of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS Level 1 was launched in 1996 and is supported by all browsers. This version is the older of the two and is used mostly for font formatting, text alignment and line spacing.
CSS version 2 came out in 1998. This one is a lot more powerful than its predecessor allowing you not only to format text but also to position elements on your web page. This version of CSS is so powerful that all good web designers use it instead of using html tables.
The word Cascading reflects how style sheets work. An Html document can be linked to several style sheets, for example it could be linked to 2 sheets, an internal style sheet (styles within the head tag of a html document) and an external style sheet (a .css document).
An important aspect of Cascading Style Sheets is the operation of inheritance. If a certain aspect of formatting is not specified for a child element, it will inherit the formatting of its parent element.
When you use CSS, you can avoid the use of most html format tags making your code much easier to read. Here’s an example:
If we want to have a Blue size 12pt title at the start of a every article on our web site we would have something like this in our html code:
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