August 2006
Beginner to intermediate
496 pages
17h 36m
English
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Internal Style Sheets
An internal style sheet is a collection of styles that's part of the Web page's code, always between opening and closing HTML <style> tags in the page's <head> portion. Here's an example:
<style type="text/css">
h1 {
color: #FF7643;
font-face: Arial;
}
p {
color: red;
font-size: 1.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
/* The rest of your page follows…*/Note
You can place the <style> tag and its styles after the <title> tag in the head of the page, but Web designers usually place them right before the closing </head> tag as shown here.
The <style> tag is HTML, not CSS. But its job is to tell the Web browser that the information contained within the tags is CSS code and not HTML. Creating an internal style sheet's as simple as typing one or more styles between the <style> tags.
Internal style sheets are easy to add to a Web page, and provide an immediate visual boost to your HTML. But they aren't the most efficient method for designing an entire Web site composed of many Web pages. For one thing, you need to copy and paste the internal style sheet into each page of your site—a time consuming chore that adds bandwidth-hogging code to each page.
But internal style sheets are even more of a hassle when you want to update the look of a site. For example, say you want to change the <h1> tag, which you originally decided should appear as large, green, bold type. But now you want small, blue type using the Courier type face. Using internal style sheets, you'd need to edit ...
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