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Friday, September 2, 2011

What is CSS

CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheet, it is the back bone language of web designing.

Normally when someone wants to develop a web site, they must know how to use CSS to it's fullest potential, since CSS is what makes your site look great.

CSS is mostly a set of commands, moulding your site into the design you want. CSS was introduces to make web styling a lot easier, and that's exactly what it is good at.

Here's a example:


div#main {
       background: #fff;
       width: 500px;
       height: 500px;
}

I just basically designed a block to have the name 'main' and have a white background with the size of 500 pixels by 500 pixels.

CSS can be added into a html file quite easily, from attaching a seperate CSS file normally called, style.css, you can also do the CSS styling within a html document like this.


<html>
<head>
   <style type="text/css">


   div#main {
          background: #fff;
          width: 500px;
          height: 500px;
   }


   </style>
</head>


<body>


<div class="main">
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
</div>


</body>
</html>

Learning and using CSS is fun and each day is different, you learn something new everyday since it's a technology that keeps on growing.

Have a look at this article about how to write better CSS

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