5 Amazing facts about CSS.

What is CSS?

• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
• CSS describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media.
• CSS saves a lot of work. It can control the layout of multiple web pages all at once.
• External stylesheets are stored in CSS files.

CSS Solved a Big Problem

-HTML was NEVER intended to contain tags for formatting a web page!

-HTML was created to describe the content of a web page, like:

      <h1>This is a heading</h1>

      <p>This is a paragraph.</p>

-When tags like <font>, and color attributes were added to the HTML 3.2 specification, it started a nightmare for web developers. Development of large websites, where fonts and color information were added to every single page, became a long and expensive process.

-To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created CSS.

CSS removed the style formatting from the HTML page!

CSS Syntax

-A CSS rule-set consists of a selector and a declaration block:

-The selector points to the HTML element you want to style.

-The declaration block contains one or more declarations separated by semicolons.

-Each declaration includes a CSS property name and a value, separated by a colon.

-A CSS declaration always ends with a semicolon, and declaration blocks are surrounded by curly braces.