Much more flexibleStyles can be written in one place (separate style sheets) and assigned to HTML elements through class or ID properties. It’s way easier and quicker to change styles across a whole site when they’re defined in one place.Lighter weightUsing CSS (like class=”main-nav”) creates far smaller HTML files than writing style into every HTML [...]

There are a few basic rules that govern which (separately-defined) styles apply to what elements. Fortunately, these are relatively simple and logical, once explained. I’ll go through them one at a time. 1. Applying to HTML elements themselves In CSS, if you want some styles to apply to HTML elements of a certain type, you [...]

There are lots of advantages of working this way, including: Reduced filesize – each CSS definition is written only once Reduced bandwidth – web browsers will remember (cache) the contents of CSS file, so don’t need to download the file again with each new page that uses it Easier updating – you only have to [...]

CSS is a new smarter way to apply style properties to HTML elements.You can set all kinds of style properties, like border, font, background, spacing etc. (We’ll go into these in detail later.) There are 3 main ways CSS styles can be applied: Inline with HTML On-page style definitions Separate style sheets 1) CSS Inline [...]

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the modern standard for website presentation. When combined with structural markup language like HTML, XHTML, or XML (though not limited to these), CSS provide Internet browsers with the information that enables them to present all the visual aspects and elements of a web document. CSS apply things like borders, spacing [...]