Len's Style Sheet 5 - Further Information

We have covered some of the basics of W3C's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language as an alternative to using HTML itself. By using CSS you can specify everything from typefaces for different HTML elements to font colors, background colors, margins, spacing, etc. Any part of the visual appearance of your document can be defined. The following summarizes some of the elements of style sheets:

• The style sheet rules are placed in the document's HEAD section along with the TITLE element.
• The style element is indicated by
  <STYLE>.....</STYLE>
• Each rule starts with a tag name followed by a list of style properties that are enclosed in brackets as noted { and }.
• Each style property starts with the property name, then a colon, and lastly the value of the property.
• When more that one style property is listed, they are separated by a semi-colon.
• It is a good idea to add a semi-colon after the value of the each property to ensure that they are properly addressed.

For further information, see:

• Laura Lemay's Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML4, Second Edition (1997), Chapter 32, Stylizing Your Pages, by Arman Danish.
• Also, you can find a more complete specification for Cascading Style Sheets on the Web at:
• http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-CSS1

Good luck and have fun with style sheets!

Back Home Button Return to Beginning of Page

---

I take full responsibility for the information posted. The information on this page represents that of myself and not that of California State University, Sacramento or the School of Engineering and Computer Science