3. CSS Basics

In This Chapter

The Basic CSS Selectors

Inline: Adding Styles to an HTML Tag

Embedded: Adding Styles to a Web Page

External: Adding Styles to a Web Site

(Re)Defining HTML Tags

Defining Reusable Classes

Defining Unique IDs

Defining Universal Styles

Grouping: Defining Elements That Are Using the Same Styles

Adding Comments to CSS

CSS lets you control all the elements of your document’s appearance—fonts, text, colors, backgrounds, sizes, borders, spacing, positioning, visual effects, tables, and lists. It even allows you to control the spatial and temporal styles of elements using transitions and transformations. However, the real power of using CSS for styles is that you can change the appearance of every page on your Web site by ...

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