Introduction, types and comment
Quick Hands-on
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Important Points to Remember
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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and describes how the web page should be displayed (look).
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Describes how elements should be rendered on screen, paper, speech, or other media.
- Three types or ways to add CSS to web page:
- Inline CSS
- Internal CSS
- External CSS
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Inline CSS: Used to apply a unique style for a single element.
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Internal CSS: Include CSS rules for a single HTML page and has an effect on that page. It is defined in the
<head>section using<style>element. -
External CSS: The CSS rules are defined in a separate file with the extension .css. And, each HTML page must include a reference to the external style sheet file (.css) using the
<link>element, inside the<head>section. - A comment is used to explain the code which might be helpful for self or for others. And, they are not displayed in the browser.
