 | | | CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a way to divide the content from the layout on web pages.
How it works:
A style is a definition of fonts, colors, etc.
Each style has a unique name: a selector.
The selectors and their styles are defined in one place.
In your HTML contents you simply refer to the selectors whenever you want to activate a certain style.
For example:
Instead of defining fonts and colors each time you start a new table cell, you can define a style and then, simply refer to that style in your table cells.
Compare the following examples of a simple table:
Classic HTML
<table>
<tr><td bgcolor="#FFCC00" align="left"><font face="arial" size="2" color="red"><b>this is line 1</b></font></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#FFCC00" align="left"><font face="arial" size="2" color="red"><b>this is line 2</b></font></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#FFCC00" align="left"><font face="arial" size="2" color="red"><b>this is line 3</b></font></td></tr>
</table>
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With CSS (assuming that a selector called subtext is defined)
<table>
<tr><td class="subtext">this is line 1</td></tr>
<tr><td class="subtext">this is line 2</td></tr>
<tr><td class="subtext">this is line 3</td></tr>
</table>
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While CSS lets you separate the layout from the content, it also lets you define the layout much more powerfully than you could with classic HTML. |
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