Basics of CSS and how its useful for your website...

Basics of CSS and how its useful for your website

Cascading Style Sheets

- Styles define  how to display HTML elements
- Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem
- External Style Sheets can save a lot of work
- External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files

Development of large web sites where fonts and color information were added to every single page became a long and expensive process because of repetitive inserstion of required tags.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS to solve this problem...

CSS SYNTAX:

A CSS rule has two main parts: a selector, and one or more declarations.Each declaration consists of a property and a value.The property is the style attribute you want to change. Each property has a value.

/* Commnets */
H1
{
color:blue;
text-align:left;
}