HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 5-31
Plan
Ahead
Planning an external style sheet.
The home page is complete, but some style details are lacking. It is important to maintain a
consistent look across a Web site. By creating an external style sheet, you can maintain that
consistent look with great style.
Determine what styles you want to use.
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As you have seen, there are many styles that
you can use to enhance your Web site (see Appendix D). Some that you can utilize in this
Web site are:
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Font family - maintaining a consistent font family is very important because the style
of font is what you see the most across a Web site.
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Font size - for the same reason as above, you should maintain consistency in font size;
there are exceptions to this, especially in titles on the Web page.
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Margins - it is helpful to utilize margins to help define the structure of a Web page.
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Borders around links - you do not always want to see borders around images that you
use as links; setting the border to zero is sometimes better style.
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Determine if you need to add any classes. If there is code that will be repeated across
Web pages, you should add a class to the external style sheet and use the class name
in the HTML files. If you want to make a change across a Web site (such as font color),
it is much easier to do that one time in an external style sheet rather than changing it
multiple times in many Web pages.
