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Working With Internal Styles

Internal styles are those that are defined and used only in the current document. If you need to create style definitions for only one page in your site, you can use internal styles. If you want your site to have a cohesive look across multiple pages, you should use an external style sheet and link that style sheet to each document that you want to use that look.

Tip

Using external style sheets is recommended whenever possible. External styles are beneficial because they enable you to use styles in other documents. Additionally, because the formatting code for external styles is contained in a common external document, the pages that use that style sheet do not have to continually reload the formatting information; ...