CSS allows for the styling and layout of web pages, enabling control over aspects such as text color and size, font styles, spacing between elements, positioning, and layout. It also facilitates the use of background images or colors, and enables tailored displays for various devices and screen sizes, among other features.
| Tip: The term “cascading” indicates that a style assigned to a parent element will also be inherited by all child elements within it. Therefore, if you designate the color of the body text as “blue,” all headings, paragraphs, and other text elements within the body will similarly adopt that color (unless otherwise specified)! |
There are three methods to incorporate CSS into HTML documents:
While the most common practice is to maintain styles in separate, external CSS files, this tutorial will focus on inline and internal styles for simplicity and to facilitate hands-on learning.