Introduction

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been seriously underated. Maybe it's because web designers think it's harder than what it is. The truth is, CSS is incredibly easy!

With CSS, you can define all your common styles in an external Style Sheet. This way, if you want to change every occurence of a style throughout your site, you only need to update one place.

This tutorial will show you how to implement CSS into your website. This tutorial will also show you how to create an external style sheet and link to it from your HTML page.

About CSS

What does CSS stand for?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

What is CSS?

CSS is a language that you can use to define styles against any HTML element. These styles are set using CSS properties.For example, you can set font properties (size, colors, style etc), background images, border styles, and much more.

Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 (CSS1) became a W3C Recommendation in December 1996. It describes the CSS language as well as a simple visual formatting model. CSS2, which became a W3C recommendation in May 1998, builds on CSS1 and adds support for media-specific style sheets (e.g. printers and aural devices), downloadable fonts, element positioning and tables.

As of this writing, CSS3 is currently under development.

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