CSS Cascading Style Sheet

CSS allows you to attach a style sheet description of the style of your website defining the appearance of elements such as fonts, colours and layout.

It is a way to seperate the style formatting from the web page content. One great reason to do this is you can easily modify the appearance of your entire website from one style sheet file. Also, creating new pages becomes easier and neater since the web page html is simplified.

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To get started with css you can create a text file called "styles.css". This will be an external style sheet referenced by your html webpages by inserting the following line before the "</head>" part of your code: <link rel="StyleSheet" href="../styles.css" type="text/css">

Now there is no need to specify font properties and colours in your html code. All the styles of elements will be defined in the style sheet.

Our CSS tutorial will show you how to generate a style sheet and the CSS Template shows a typical example of the styles.css file contents.