Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets can be written directly into an HTML page but is much more effective when written in its own stylesheet. This stylesheet can be activated on various pages using an HTML link command.

 href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Therefore an edit to the stylesheet will be uniformly run on all pages that run the link. The style references can control the whole website making it simple to globally change features throughout. CSS uses simple rules and syntaxes and is considered as one of the easiest languages to learn. The most common features of CSS controls are the typography tags… size, weight, colour etc.

h3 {
color: #2A0500;
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: regular;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 1px;
}

The h3 element is a sub-header of the typography hierarchy, all header references are given CSS values forming a uniform structure. All elements within a webpage can be identified and given a set of style  instructions on how to behave, sections, columns, images, forms… everything you see CSS3 is the latest version of the CSS specification adding several new styling features and improvements to enhance the web presentation capabilities.