Background colors and images can be used for stylistic effects and can be an important element in the design of web sites.
Score with Cascading Style Sheets!
CSS is an exciting feature of HTML that gives Web-site developers more control over how they want their pages displayed by specifying how each element should appear in a style sheet. Prior to the advent of CSS, the layouts of HTML documents were left up to the browsers, whilst HTML tags merely served to define a document’s contents.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – Getting Started
If you’ve been putting off using CSS because you have some
uncertainty about exactly how to use it, then today is the
day you’ll get started. You’ll see the simplicity of CSS.
You’ll realize that making style changes to your site’s
web pages is not only quick and easy, but also fun.
Using Cascading Style Sheets on Your Web Site
How would you like to have a tool that could make your web site load faster? What if it could also allow you to make changes across you entire site with just a few keystrokes? And while we’re at it, let’s make it the standard for new browsers, so that your site will still work properly in the future.
Well, that tool is here now and it’s called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is the part of the code that defines the appearance of a web site.
How to Create And Link Style Sheets
Creating style sheets is fairly simple. To create a style sheet you will need to have some understanding of which selectors, properties and values work together. You can get that information in the CSS Properties section. Below you will find a downloadable example as well as an inline example.
Using Style Sheets To Replace The Font Tag
In the last issue of DesignNewz, we covered the basics of cascading style sheets, their hierarchy, and how to reference them in HTML. In this issue we will go more in depth on style sheets, focusing primarily on the the basics of syntax.