What Is CSS

Designing With CSS

Css is an acronym for describing Cascading Style Sheets. It is a modern programing specification and formating tecnology for advanced website designs layout. Css is a powerful and advanced internet technology used for setting the available styles found in almost all word processors.  You can use one Cascading Style Sheet to controle the appearance of html tags on a single webpage or across an entire website.

The function and rules of Css are called styles. These styles can be used to determin the overall presentation of a html document. The syntax can be integrated with the content of the webpage in several ways. Styles can be visual, such as a font face or text color, or they can be used for non-visual purposes. Example, screen readers can use styles to customize the pronunciation of text found on a webpage.

Css Is Not A Markup Language

Css uses a different set of coding and completely seperate syntax. It is not a markup language like Html, it's a technology that allow you to redefine and manipulate the manner in which your html document tags funtion. The real magic and power of Css are derived from its ability to Integrate and match document syntax from different sources.

The major content of this website is separated from the formatting by a master style sheet tailored to achieve the desired looks and presentation of the pages. There are areas where inline styles are employed at different intervals in certain sections on several pages, but the heavy lifting on this site are done through external style sheets.

Different Ways Of Using Cascading Style Sheets

There are three basic ways you can use style sheets wth you Xhtml document. The methods can be used separetely or together for more flexibility. You can embed import or link a style sheet to a webpage.

Embeded
Embeded style sheets are also called inline.  They are written in the head and body of the document.

External
External style sheet is a separate page from your Xtml document. It contain all the style rules saved as a text file with any name and the Css extension attached.

Imported
Imported style sheet are style rules called up by the character @filename and a Universal Resource Locator (URL). With this method you can import and use a style sheet from another website server on the web.