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Intended Audience

Before you begin the CSS Tutorial we suggest that you check to see you meet the following recommendations:

• You have used HTML in the past
• You know the basic HTML tags and vocabulary.
• You want to be a better web designer!

If you said no to one of the above, we recommend that you check out our HTML Tutorial before taking on CSS.
When you are ready, continue the tutorial to learn about the basic form of CSS and where you should place your CSS code.

 

What is CSS?

• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
• 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

A CSS (cascading style sheet) file allows you to separate your web sites (X)HTML content from it’s style. As always you use your (X)HTML file to arrange the content, but all of the presentation (fonts, colors, background, borders, text formatting, link effects & so on…) are accomplished within a CSS.
At this point you have some choices of how to use the CSS, either internally or externally.