What is a Cascading Style Sheet?

3^rd August, 2010

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) basically tells a web browser how it should format a page that is being loaded… CSS can be placed inside the web page itself, however ideally it needs to be placed in a separate document which is linked to the web page! So in the head section of your webpage you would insert:

The page in question would then link to a file called style.css which would tell the page how to look… So what if I wanted a black background and some tidy text?? Well I would write:

You would then need to add the following into the body section: