Introducing CSS

mytonse · #1 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 03:17 PM

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Presenting CSS Tutorials on Desitwist.com

CSS is a demanding field these days.Its better we get equipped beforehand.

Before we begin,readers should have the basics and of either HTML or XHTML.

If not ,do go through out XHTML and HTML Tutorials.

Starting on.

CSS orignally stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

It gets a little confusing after this..lil bit..notice..

Styles show how to display HTML elements and are stored in style sheets.Styles is a valued subject in HTML 4.0.It was added to solve issues.Styling is of 2 types.External stylle sheets and Multiple style sheets.

External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files and Multiple style sheets will cascade into one

CSS style help to solve issues.

In HTML, tags were designed to define the content of a document. They were supposed to indicate "header and paragraph or a table"guven by tags like <h1>, <p>, <table> etc.Formating tages wasnt considered and everything was supposed to be taken
care of by the browser.

As the leading Web browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer added new HTML/XHTML tags and attributes (like the <font> tag and the color attribute) to the original HTML specification, it became more and more difficult to create Web sites where the content of HTML documents was clearly separated from the document's presentation layout.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - the non profit, standard setting consortium, responsible for standardizing HTML -
created STYLES in addition to HTML 4.0
All major browsers support Cascading Style Sheets..

Style Sheets aid Display Work

Styles sheets define how HTML elements are to be displayed, just like the font tag and the color attribute in HTML. Styles are normally saved in external .css files. External style sheets enable you to change the appearance and layout of all the pages in your Web, just by editing one single CSS document!

CSS is a breakthrough in Web design because it allows developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. As a Web developer you can define a style for each HTML element and apply it to as many Web pages as you want. To make
a global change, simply change the style, and all elements in the Web are updated automatically.

Multiple Styles Will Cascade Into One

Style sheets allow style information to be specified in many ways. Styles can be specified inside a single HTML element, inside the <head> element of an HTML page, or in an external CSS file. Even multiple external style sheets can be referenced
inside a single HTML document.

Cascading Order
What style will be used when there is more than one style specified for an HTML element?
Generally speaking we can say that all the styles will "cascade" into a new "virtual" style sheet by the following rules, where number four has the highest priority:

Browser default
External style sheet
Internal style sheet (inside the <head> tag)
Inline style (inside an HTML element)

So, an inline style (inside an HTML element) has the highest priority, which means that it will override a style declared
inside the <head> tag, in an external style sheet, or in a browser (a default value).

to be continued..

I have made things as clear as possible.If any mistakes or doubts are noted,dnt hesitate to point them out.

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