HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
A ppendix C
CSS basics
f you've just read appendix B, you're probably wondering how those
rather dull textual examples end up looking like the beautiful web pages
you see every day. The answer isn't some secret extra markup you didn't
learn about yet, but Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS)
. This appendix will
introduce the main features of
CSS
, including
The basic syntax of
CSS
❂
Using
CSS
selectors to apply styles only to certain elements
❂
The most common properties and values
❂
Using
CSS
for layout
❂
Rules, selectors, properties, and values
A
CSS
style sheet is made up of
rules
. Here are three example CSS rules.
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