Explore cascading style sheets (CSS)

Cascading style sheets can save Web developers a tremendous amount of time by standardizing the formatting of an entire Web page or group of pages. Discover how style sheets are constructed and how they're attached to a document (either placed within the document itself, or as a separate file) in this sample chapter from HTML and XHTML Step by Step. Learn how to define a style, and how to apply it. Chapter coverage includes:

• Understanding styles
• Constructing style rules
• Creating styles for nested tags
• Creating classes and IDs for applying styles
• Applying styles to hyperlinks
• Creating and linking to external style sheets

Title: HTML and XHTML Step by Step
ISBN: 0735622639
Published: February 2006
Author: Faithe Wempen
Chapter: Chapter 6: Introduction to Style Sheets
Published by Microsoft Press
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