Understanding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - An Introduction
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool used to define the presentation of HTML elements, allowing for separation of styling from content. This article covers the basics of CSS, its importance, different styling methods, and advantages of using external style sheets. Discover why CSS is essential for enhancing web design and readability.
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CGS 3066: Lecture 3 Cascading Style Sheets
CSS 3 CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Current Version: CSS 3. Supported by most browsers o Internet Explorer : 9 and higher o Firefox: 15 or higher o Chrome: 16 or higher o Safari: 4 or higher o Opera: 10 or higher
CSS - Intro Styles define how to display HTML elements. Styles were added to HTML 4.0 to solve a problem. External Style Sheets can save a lot of work. External Style Sheets are stored in CSS files.
Why CSS? The original purpose of HTML was to combine the structure and content of the page into one document. When presentation elements began to be included in the document, it increased the complexity and reduced readability. Solution: Move the presentation elements elsewhere.
Why CSS? Separate the style elements from the documents and put it in a style sheet . Advantages: o Styles can be changed easily. o Document is more readable.
3 ways to do styling Inline Style o Style elements are included as HTML attributes. Internal Style Sheets o A <style> tag is used in the HTML document to specify the presentation elements. External Style Sheets o A separate .css file is used as a part of your set of documents. It contains all the styling elements.
Inline CSS What little styling we ve been doing so far. Mixes content with presentation. Loses many of the advantages of a style sheet. Used very rarely (when very few elements require styling). Add the style attribute to the relevant tag. The style attribute can contain any CSS property.
Inline CSS example <h1 style="color:blue;margin-left:30px;"> This is a heading.</h1>
Internal CSS Used when the current document has a unique style. A <style> tag is used under the <head> tag of the document to define the styles. The content of the <style> tag follows CSS syntax.
Internal CSS example <head> <style> body { background-color: linen; } h1 { color: maroon; margin-left: 40px; } </style> </head>
External CSS Used when a style is applied to many pages (like a theme). The look of the webpage can be changed by just changing one file. Each page must include a link to the style sheet with the <link> tag. The <link> tag goes inside the head section.
External CSS An external stylesheet is written as a separate file with a .css extension. Should go into the same relative path as the rest of the files (or can be referred by absolute path). The external stylesheet should not contain any HTML tags.
External CSS example mystyle.css body { background-color: lightblue; } h1 { color: navy; margin-left: 20px; }
External CSS example <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css"> </head>
Why Cascading? Multiple styles will cascade into one. Styles can be specified: inside an HTML element inside the head section of an HTML page in an external CSS file
Cascading Order Generally speaking we can say that all the styles will "cascade" into a new "virtual" style sheet by the following rules, where number one has the highest priority: 1. Inline style (inside an HTML element) 2. Internal style sheet (in the head section) 3. External style sheet 4. Browser default
Cascading example External Style sheet: h1 { color: navy; margin-left: 20px; } Internal Style sheet: h1 { color: orange; }
Cascading example The final style for the h1 element will be a combination of the two according to the order of preference: color: orange; margin-left: 20px;
