Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

^#54 Creating an External Style Sheet

The easiest way to generate a CSS (style sheet) file in Dreamweaver is to create a new style. As you do, you’ll have the option of including that style in a new CSS file. In the following steps, you’ll define a style and save it in a new style sheet. These steps can be adapted to generate a CSS file using any tag as the initiating style.

Page Formatting Overrides External Styles

All CSS formatting can be either embedded in a single page or attached to that page via an external style sheet. In fact, the “Cascading” in Cascading Style Sheets refers in part to the fact that different levels of styles defer to each other. CSS applied to a page overrides CSS applied through an external style sheet.

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