| What is The Concept Behind CSS? | | | | precisely where you want toadd rollover effects to |
| The concept behind CSS (a.k.a. cascading style | | | | linkscontrol the spacing between letters, lines, |
| sheets or style sheets) is really simple. | | | | margins, web page bordersspecify the units such as |
| CSS allows you to create a single document of code, | | | | centimeters, pixels, points and morehide content |
| similar to an HTML file,that lets you specify the | | | | from certain web browsers in certain situations. |
| colors, fonts, backgrounds, etc. of a web page. | | | | An example of this is when you have some content |
| The CSS file is then linked to from the web page(s) | | | | that you want to appear only inyour web pages, but |
| thatyou want to have the same styles that you | | | | not in print. |
| specify. | | | | Some Benefits of CSS |
| CSS allows you to make changes to all of the web | | | | Your web pages load faster because there is less |
| pages that link to the CSS file atonce by changing a | | | | code to transfer |
| style in the style sheet, instead of having to manually | | | | There is less code to type |
| change every style in every HTML file. | | | | It is easier to have a consistent look and feel to your |
| If CSS did this and only this, they would save you a | | | | entire web site |
| lot of time to say the least, especially if youhave a | | | | Updating and maintaining websites is much easier and |
| large or multiple web sites. This alone is worth | | | | less time consuming |
| learning CSS, however, style sheets allowyou to do | | | | In the end, CSS can save you a lot of time and |
| this and much more. | | | | effort and is very easy to learn. |
| CSS also allows you to:position text and graphics | | | | |