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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has grown in popularity over the years because it allows you to set 1 common font, style, and size for the whole site, eliminating the need for endless font tags.

Setting a single table tag in the CSS replaced having to put 1 font tag into each cell of a table. The table we will build for the site would have needed 4 font tags. One in each cell.

But CSS also allows you the flexibility to have a standard font size for headers, a smaller one for footers. You can set text links to be whatever color you want it to be.

A simple, but effective CSS coding would look like this:



Designing and Developing Your Web Page Using HTML - 2007