'''Cascading Style Sheets''' ('''CSS''') are used with [[HTML]] to give a web page designers centralized control over the appearance of each page.
'''Cascading Style Sheets''' ('''CSS''') are used with [[HTML]] to give a web page designers centralized control over the appearance of each page.
==Format==
==Format==
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All definitions in CSS are written as <tt>selector { property: value; }</tt>. For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type, <tt>body {background:red; color:maroon}</tt>. Body is the selector - meaning you want to edit a characteristic of the body in html, background and color are the properties - background refers to the background color and color refers to the text color, and then red and maroon are the given values for those properties.
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All definitions in CSS are written as
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<pre>
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selector {
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property: value;
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}</pre>
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For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type, <pre>body {background:red; color:maroon}</tt>. Body is the selector - meaning you want to edit a characteristic of the body in html, background and color are the properties - background refers to the background color and color refers to the text color, and then red and maroon are the given values for those properties.