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Cascading Style Sheets - CSS

August 22, 2007 on 3:41 pm | In Main | 2 Comments

Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
By: Erthy W, Thu Aug 9th, 2007

• A Cascading Style Sheet is a set of rules that specify how a HTML document should be presented.
• Cascading Style Sheets are used to format HTML. You should have at least a basic understanding of HTML before starting to learn CSS.

There are three types of style sheet: external, internal, and inline. Cascading Style Sheets get their name from the hierarchy assigned to them. The inline style sheet has the highest priority when formatting the HTML, followed by the internal style sheet, and finally the external style sheet. This means that if there are conflicting values in an inline style sheet and an external style sheet for example, only the style defined within the inline style sheet will be applied (the rest of the external style sheet will be applied as normal however).

CSS Controlled Web Design
By: Sasch Mayer, Thu Aug 9th, 2007
By now, most web designers are aware of the many benefits of using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to control the formatting and appearance of text elements within their web pages.
Indeed, if applied as outlined in one of my articles from 2006 ( CSS - Weight-Loss for your Code), Cascading Style Sheets can substantially cut down the amount of code needed to present a web page in a polished and professional manner.