Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner's Guide. Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Dec. Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference. Jun 30, 1997 The W3C style sheet standard, Cascading Style Sheets, works in exactly the same way. Properties can be assigned to standard tags such as P or H1.

• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets • CSS describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media • CSS saves a lot of work. It can control the layout of multiple web pages all at once • External stylesheets are stored in CSS files CSS Demo - One HTML Page - Multiple Styles! Here we will show one HTML page displayed with four different stylesheets. Click on the 'Stylesheet 1', 'Stylesheet 2', 'Stylesheet 3', 'Stylesheet 4' links below to see the different styles.

CSS is used to define styles for your web pages, including the design, layout and variations in display for different devices and screen sizes. CSS Solved a Big Problem HTML was NEVER intended to contain tags for formatting a web page!

HTML was created to describe the content of a web page, like: This is a heading This is a paragraph. When tags like, and color attributes were added to the HTML 3.2 specification, it started a nightmare for web developers. Development of large websites, where fonts and color information were added to every single page, became a long and expensive process. To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS. CSS removed the style formatting from the HTML page! Malayalamanorama Font here.

CSS Saves a Lot of Work! The style definitions are normally saved in external.css files.

With an external stylesheet file, you can change the look of an entire website by changing just one file!