Difference between revisions of "Cascading Style Sheets"
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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}</ | + | For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type, |
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| + | body { | ||
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| + | color:maroon}</pre> 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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Revision as of 00:11, November 11, 2007
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used with HTML to give a web page designers centralized control over the appearance of each page.
Format
All definitions in CSS are written as
selector {
property: value;
}
For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type,
body {
background:red;
color:maroon}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.