What is CSS?  

What is CSS?

1. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

2. CSS is the technology used to make the layout for WebPages.

3. CSS allows you to make changes to all of the web pages that link to the CSS file at once by changing a style in the style sheet. Instead of having to manually change every style in every HTML file.

4. They would save you a lot of time to say the least, especially if you have a large or multiple web sites.

Syntax

The CSS syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a property and a value:

Selector {property: value}

The selector is normally the HTML element/tag you wish to define, the property is the attribute you wish to change, and each property can take a value. The property and value are separated by a colon, and surrounded by curly braces:

body {color: black}

Cascading Stylesheets Advantages:

1. The content is separated from the design.

2. You site uses less bandwidth and loads faster.

3. Your website will automatically gain better search engine results.

4. CSS is compatible with newer browsers.

5. CSS can be used to display the same content on different media.

So it gives you great control of your website and makes your visitors happy when they are surfing your website.

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An external Stylesheet? External stylesheets give you the control of your whole website from one single file rather than trying to edit your whole websites CSS using global search and replace or by opening each page individually.

If you are new to this HTML malarkey then welcome, you have just embarked upon a new learning curve that does not take too long to master. Before the invention of CSS everything within a webpage used to be designed using tables.

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