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How to create Cascading Style Sheets
Frankly, I have never used Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS), but some web designers swear by them. What they are, basically,
are shortcuts to having to constantly format text size, font, color and etc. for
repetitive tasks. One reason I've not used them is that they tend to over-ride
the web site visitor's choices and impose on visitors the designer's choices.
Often, people need larger type for vision
problems, so they simply go to VIEW TEXT SIZE in their browser and make
their own choice, based on their individual preferences. I choose not to
interfere with that.
However, for those who are interested, I will
be posting some online tutorials and/or references on how to create CSS's.
Webmonkey.com
has an excellent and easy-to-understand tutorial in its Reference Guide section,
which begins:
What Is CSS?
CSS (cascading stylesheets) is a simple mechanism for controlling the style of a Web document without compromising its structure. By separating visual design elements (fonts, colors, margins, and so on) from the structural logic of a Web page, CSS give Web designers the control they crave without sacrificing the integrity of the data - thus maintaining its usability in multiple environments. In addition, defining typographic design and page layout from within a single, distinct block of code - without having to resort to image maps, <font> tags, tables, and spacer GIFs - allows for faster downloads, streamlined site maintenance, and instantaneous global control of design attributes across multiple pages.
Client-side support for the various CSS properties is uneven, even among browsers that support stylesheets. The CSS properties and values presented here are those supported by both Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4.
To continue, go to How
CSS Works.
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