What is CSS
Cascading Style
Sheets, fondly referred to as CSS, is a simple design language intended to simplify
the process of making web pages presentable.
CSS handles the look
and feel part of a web page. Using CSS, you can control the color of the text,
the style of fonts, the spacing between paragraphs, how columns are sized and
laid out, what background images or colors are used, as well as a variety of
other effects.
CSS is easy to learn
and understand but it provides powerful control over the presentation of an
HTML document. Most commonly, CSS is combined
with the markup languages HTML or XHTML.
Advantages
of CSS:
CSS saves time - You can write CSS
once and then reuse same sheet in multiple HTML pages. You can define a style for each HTML
element and apply it to as many Web pages as you want.
Pages load faster - If you are using CSS, you do not need to
write HTML tag attributes
every time. Just write one CSS rule of a tag and apply to all the occurrences of
that tag. So less code means faster download times.
Easy maintenance - To make a global change, simply change the
style, and all elements in all the web pages will be updated
automatically.
Superior styles to HTML - CSS has a much wider array of attributes
than HTML so you can give far better look to your HTML page in
comparison of HTML attributes.
Multiple Device Compatibility - Style sheets allow content to be optimized
for more than one type of device. By using the same HTML document,
different versions of a website can be presented for handheld devices such as
PDAs and cell phones or for printing.
Global web standards - Now HTML attributes are being deprecated
and it is being recommended to use CSS. So its a good idea to
start using CSS in all the HTML pages to make them compatible to future
browsers.
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