What is CSS and why was this process started

What is CSS?

CSS Video Tutorial Part 1

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Styles define how to display HTML elements. These styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve the problem of new tags that were added to HTML 3.2.

When tags like , and colour attributes were added to the HTML 3.2 specification, it started a nightmare for web developers. Development of large web sites, where fonts and colour information were added to every single page, became a long and expensive process.

To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS. In HTML 4.0, all formatting could be removed from the HTML document, and stored in a separate CSS file.

HTML was never intended to contain tags for formatting a document. HTML was intended to define the content of a document, like:

Header Tags
Paragraph Tags

All browsers support CSS today.

CSS Saves You a Lot of Work!

CSS defines HOW HTML elements are to be displayed. Styles are normally saved in external .css files. External style sheets enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the pages in a Web site, just by editing one single file!

Learn about CSS today for FREE!

The following tutorial provided by the World Wide Web Consortium will quite literally walk you through CSS from “I know nothing about this!” through to “I’m an expert at CSS” in an easy to follow, step by step method.

Click on the link below and start learning today for FREE!

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp

Tags: css, html, w3c

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Compila Limited on December 15, 2009 at 7:54

Reply by Paul Robinson on December 11, 2009 at 12:48pm

Thank you this is greatly appreciated, coming from the old school of FrontPage and Html it is about time I caught up with the times :)

Permalink Reply by Compila Limited on December 15, 2009 at 7:56

Hi Paul,

No problem at all, did you have a look at the CSS videos yet?

Regards

Compila

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