Thus far this book has mentioned and touted the benefits of working with Cascading Style Sheets but has not gotten into the fundamental aspects of how to create and apply CSS to your HTML. To refresh your memory about why CSS is so great, take a few minutes to return to Chapter 9 and read the section titled Using CSS Instead of HTML.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been a major recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for several years now, giving designers and programmers the highest degree of control over how Web content is presented in a browser window. Much like a word processor or page layout program’s style sheets, CSS for the Web allow adapted default formatting options as well as customized styles and positioning attributes that can be selectivly applied to text, images, lists, tables, and other objects on a page.
CSS allows you to take control over many aspects of presentation, including:
CSS is fairly easy to create and use and if you read the text and follow along with the exercises in this chapter, you’ll be up and running pages with CSS in no time.