CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, a language used in web design to style the visual presentation of web pages. It allows designers and developers to apply styles (such as fonts, colors, spacing, and layout) to HTML content.
CSS enhances HTML by providing style features that are not possible with HTML alone. This includes controlling the layout of multiple web pages all at once, creating more intricate and responsive designs.
How it Works
CSS can be added to HTML documents in three ways: inline (directly in the HTML elements), internal (within the <style> tag in the head section of the HTML file), and external (linking to an external CSS file).
This flexibility helps in managing the presentation of websites efficiently.
Benefits
- Consistency: With an external CSS file, you can maintain a consistent design across multiple web pages.
- Flexibility: You can quickly change the look of a site by editing a single CSS file.
- Efficiency: CSS files are downloaded once and stored in the browser cache, speeding up website load times for subsequent visits.
CSS is a cornerstone technology of the web, alongside HTML and JavaScript, empowering web designers to create visually engaging and optimized websites.
