CSS Fundamentals

Makiel [Muh-Keel]

Last edited 461 days ago by Makiel [Muh-Keel].

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a textual language for describing how a webpage is styled for visual presentation. Web browsers use CSS to determine how a webpage is rendered on the screen, printed to paper, or presented via other media

A CSS rule consists of a selector followed by a declaration block between braces ({}).

A CSS selector specifies the HTML elements to which the specific style rule applies.

A declaration block contains one or more declarations separated by semicolons (;).

A CSS styling declaration is a CSS property followed by a colon (:) and the property value.

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Applying CSS

A webpage may use all three methods for applying CSS styles. CSS can be applied to HTML in three ways:

An inline style places CSS declarations inside an element's style attribute.

An embedded stylesheet places CSS rules in an HTML document's head using a <style> element.

An external stylesheet places CSS rules in a separate file that is imported into an HTML document with a <link> element.

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Applying CSS

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