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Inside a CSS Style Sheet

If you don't have any experience with CSS, you'll be glad to know that it is very simple in structure. A CSS style sheet consists of rules that determine how a given set of styles is applied to a document. The application of style rules is determined by selectors, which are CSS constructs that identify portions of an HTML or XML document. A selector establishes the link between an HTML or XML document and a style or set of styles. There are three kinds of selectors used in CSS:

• Element type

• Attribute class

• Attribute ID

The element type selector simply selects an element of a given type and applies a style or set of styles to it. This is the simplest approach to using CSS because there is a simple one-to-one mapping between ...