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What is CSS?

 
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What is CSS?, badly need
al_buotan
13 Mar, 2008 - 03:47 PM
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What is the purposed of CSS ?? wub.gif
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13 Mar, 2008 - 03:52 PM
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CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheets. They are used to stylize elements of HTML and the page. So for instance, this post you are reading right now has a nice thin colored border around it. It also has some spacing and is presented in a fancy look. This look is controlled by style attributes defined in a linked file.

You can control things such as how font looks from bolding to italics to underlining, you can control spacing around elements like padding and margins, you can even control the fonts used, how page elements are shown (whether they are invisible or not) and even how images appear.

Overall they can give the web designer finer control over the presentation of how a page looks, separate from its actual content.

I hope that makes sense. You can read more at the following link...

Cascading Style Sheets on Wikipedia

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I recommend "Stylin' with CSS', by Charles Wyke-Smith
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22 Mar, 2008 - 09:40 PM
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Pretty much, if you learn it you can make your site ten times more attractive.
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22 Mar, 2008 - 10:24 PM
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A large factor of CSS (that was left out of that beautiful explanation) is it controls an entire page, and not individual elements.

Ex.
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<b color="red">Bolded junk.</b>
<br />
...
<b color="red">Some more.</b>
<br />
...
<b color="red">Yet again.</b>


Can become:
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<style type="text/css"> /* Opening CSS tag */
b {color:red;} /* make "<b>" tags become "<b color="red">" */
</style> /* Closing CSS tag */

<b>Bolded junk.</b>
<br />
...
<b>Some more.</b>
<br />
...
<b>Yet again.</b>


Although this is a horrible example (and extremely confusing if you don't know CSS), it does show that one line of CSS can affect many lines (and using one HTML code, many PAGES) of HTML.

BTW: "/* Text */" is the CSS syntax for comments.

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