December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
745 pages
17h 26m
English
The terms stylesheets and cascading style sheets (CSS) simply refer to a way to declare how you want to display something in an HTML document. Stylesheets let you create a set of properties and apply that set of properties as needed, throughout your document or across many different documents in a site.
Why are stylesheets increasingly popular? Stylesheets allow you to:
Enforce a consistent look and feel across an application
Avoid retyping formatting tags and attributes
Change the appearance of a site with less effort
Choose from more formatting options
Link content (tags) with display (formatting)
Manipulate appearance through JavaScript
The power of styles is that they are reused. One style ...