Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

13.1. Styles

In the early days of the Internet, website designers used the formatting features of HTML to decorate these pages. These formatting features were limited, inconsistent, and sometimes poorly supported. Worst of all, HTML formatting led to horribly messy markup, with formatting details littered everywhere.

The solution is the CSS standard, which is supported in all modern browsers. Essentially, CSS gives you a wide range of consistent formatting properties that you can apply to any HTML element. Styles allow you to add borders, set font details, change colors, add margin space and padding, and so on. Many of the examples you've seen so far have in this book have used CSS formatting.

In the following sections, you'll learn the basics ...