Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX 2004 Unleashed

Chapter 10. Cascading Style Sheets

IN THIS CHAPTER

• A Brief Introduction to Styles

• Designing with CSS

• Style Properties

• Working with CSS Styles

• Editing CSS in Code View

The cascading style sheets (CSS) language is a way to describe the appearance of Web pages by assigning styles to specific HTML tags and portions of the page. These styles allow a designer greater range of presentational effects than can be achieved by using only HTML styles. Dreamweaver MX 2004 makes it easy to edit and apply style sheets to new or existing Web documents.

If you're already familiar with CSS, you can skip over the following introduction and go directly to “Designing with CSS” to use Dreamweaver MX 2004 to build Web pages using styles.

A Brief Introduction to Styles

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