Sams Teach Yourself CSS 24 in Hours

Chapter 2. Getting Started with CSS

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• What kinds of tools, from text editors to CSS software, you can use to write your style sheets

• How to create, name, and save a style sheet

• What the different parts of a CSS rule are and the function of each

• How and when to add comments to a style sheet

• Which simple rules you can use to create a basic style sheet

• How to apply your style sheet to a simple HTML file

• Which browsers to use to test your style sheet

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Creating a Style Sheet

A Cascading Style Sheet, as you learned in Hour 1, “Understanding CSS,” is simply a file made up of style rules. CSS files are ordinary text files, just as HTML files are ordinary text files. This means that you can use a ...