Home Page > CSS Basics

Introduction

In this module you will learn about CSS cascading style sheets the web standard for specifying style information for web pages. You will learn:

• how style sheets support good development habits
• how to link style sheets to your web pages
• basic CSS syntax
• a working set of style properties for dressing up your web pages

Summary

In this module you learned how CSS allows you to add style information to your web sites while encouraging clean separation of the style and content of your pages.

Key Points

• CSS selectors choose elements from a page to apply style information
• Selectors can be XHTML tag names or user-defined classes
• Properties define the style elements that can be changed on a page

This is a heading

This is a paragraph. Web development is fun!

This is another paragraph, brought to you by the letters T, E, and X, and the number 2.