Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Style Sheets

© Martine Dowden and Michael Dowden 2020

M. Dowden, M. DowdenArchitecting CSShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5750-0_1

1. Cascading Style Sheets

Martine Dowden¹  and Michael Dowden¹

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Brownsburg, IN, USA

 

This book on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) takes a very different approach from most. It isn’t trying to teach you how to design web pages and, aside from a cursory overview, isn’t focused on teaching you how to use CSS. This chapter introduces the focus of this book, which is how (and why) to treat CSS as a programming language.

Classification

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a web technology that allows layout, theme, and style to be applied to a document. In most common cases the document in question is a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file ...