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CSS Introduction
Pre Requisites to learn css
- Basic word processing using any text editor.
- Developing simple Web Pages using HTML.
What is CSS
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.CSS can controls multiple web pages at once.
CSS is used to how html elements are to be displayed on the web.
We use css to define style to our web pages like in terms of design, layouts and display in different devices.
HTML alone is not capable to style its web pages, we can use some tags to describe the content of web page. In HTML 3.2 some new tags are added like font and color attributes. But for large websites which have number of web pages it is very hectic.
World Wide Web consortium (W3C) introduced CSS to improve web presentation. To allow web designers to define the look and feel of their web pages.
Note: All the modern web browsers support all of CSS Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3.
Advantages of CSS
- CSS Save lots of time — As we said, we can write CSS once; and we can applied the same code to the groups of HTML elements, we can also be reused in multiple HTML web pages.
- Easy maintenance — CSS can maintain consistency across multiple documents. By making one change to the website's CSS, elements in all the web pages will be updated automatically.
- Pages load faster — CSS can share formatting to multiple pages, and reduce complexity and duplication in the structural content. It reduces the file transfer size, which results faster page loading.
- Multiple Device Compatibility — By using CSS the HTML document can be presented in different viewing styles for different rendering devices such as computer screen, cell phones, tablet screen, etc.