Appendix A. Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) define how HTML elements are displayed. Styling can happen in a few different places. The most common place for CSS is an external style sheet (which is a file with a .css extension). You place a <link> between your HTML <head> tags like Listing A-1.

Example A-1. HTML header - External Stylesheet

<head>
   <link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

Note

You can use relative or absolute paths to your style sheets for the href attribute of <link>.

You can also place a <style> tag in the <head> portion of your HTML document and define your CSS there (Listing A-2); this is called an internal style sheet.

Example A-2. HTML Header - Internal Stylesheet

<head> <style type="text/css"> ...

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