Chapter 2
Styling the Page with CSS
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding cascading style sheets
Learning the three methods you can use to add a style sheet
Applying styles to web page elements
Working with fonts and colors
Taking advantage of selectors and other style sheet timesavers
HTML elements enable Web-page designers to mark up a document’s structure, but beyond trust and hope, you don’t have any control over your text’s appearance. CSS changes that. CSS puts the designer in the driver’s seat.
— HÅKON WIUM LIE, THE “FATHER” OF CSS
One of the things that makes web coding with HTML so addictive is that you can slap up a page using a few basic tags and, when you examine the result in the browser, it usually works pretty good. A work of art it’s not, but it won’t make your eyes sore. That basic functionality and appearance are baked-in courtesy of the default formatting that all web browsers apply to various HTML elements. For example, <strong> text appears in a bold font, there's a ...
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