Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML documents.

CSS has a simple syntax and uses a number of English keywords to specify the names of various style properties. A style sheet consists of a list of rules. Each rule or rule-set consists of one or more selectors and a declaration block. A declaration-block consists of a list of declarations in braces. Each declaration itself consists of a property, a colon (:), a value, then a semi-colon (;).

What is the difference between CSS and HTML?

HTML is used to structure content. CSS is used for formatting structured content.

HTML is very easy to use; it was designed that way. You don't have to be a programmer to use it. If you can edit a text file, then you can write HTML (and if you can write email, you can edit a text file). If you tried to learn before and couldn't, then someone wasn't telling you the right things.

This tutorial will explain the structure of HTML quickly and clearly, and show you through examples the practical things you need to know, so you can be making your own pages soon.

This tutorial will explain the structure of Advanced HTML quickly and clearly, and show you through examples the practical things you need to know, so you can be making your own pages soon.

In this tutorial, you'll create small pages and view them. There aren't really any "required" exercises, but you should play with new concepts until you're comfortable with them.

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