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What is CSS?
CSS stands as the acronym of Cascading Style Sheets, used to define the appearance and characteristics of various HTML elements on a web page. Thus to work with CSS, you need to have prior knowledge of HTML and its tags in order to understand how CSS can be used to style up the elements.
Benefits
Now that is what needs to be answered before we start off with our first tutorial. Why do we need CSS and what does it do for us? CSS is used to define how different elements of your HTML page would appear when previewed. With efficient use of CSS, you can easily control the style of various elements as well as multiple pages at once, without going through the trouble to specifically change each element.
Need For CSS
CSS helps you to bypass the long process of writing codes with the style attributes for the elements at different locations along with their definitions. World Wide Web Consortium came up with CSS to allow hassle free web styles and after the release of HTML 4.0, style codes as well as attributes were allowed to be stored in separate CSS files that could be linked with the HTML code.
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To understand how CSS works, let us first understand the basic syntax of CSS set. A CSS set consists of a specific selector and a block for declaration.
p {color:blue; }