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| − | + | '''Cascading Style Sheets''' ('''CSS''') are used with [[HTML]] to give a web page designers centralized control over the appearance of each page. CSS rules work best when stored in a stylesheet document, but style rules can also be ''embedded'' into a web page (in the header) or used ''inline'' (in a tag). | |
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| + | ==Format== | ||
| + | All definitions in CSS are written as | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | selector { | ||
| + | property: value; | ||
| + | }</pre> | ||
| + | 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 | ||
| + | }</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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| + | ==References== | ||
| + | * [[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]]'s [http://style.tablemaker.net/properties.html excellent list of CSS formats]. | ||
| + | * [http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp Index of all CSS properties, with examples] | ||
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| + | [[category:internet]] | ||
Revision as of 16:50, January 24, 2010
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used with HTML to give a web page designers centralized control over the appearance of each page. CSS rules work best when stored in a stylesheet document, but style rules can also be embedded into a web page (in the header) or used inline (in a tag).
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.