CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, this is used to change how html elements are displayed on the screen. You can do inline styling in the HTML file ore create a external style sheet which are saved as a .css file. In order to use CSS, you need to understand HTML first. But you need to know both of them to make a great web page.
How to link from HTML?
If you use an external stylesheet you need to link to it in you HTML head tag.
It should look like this.
<head>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”mystylesheet.css”>
</head>
How to use CSS?
Lets say you want to style all h1 tags, on your page and make them green.
Then it will look like this
h1 {
color:green;
}
You can use some standard colors or a hex color code.
If you want to style on a certain class it will look like this.
You will always need the . before the class name.
.myclass {
background-color:green;
}
This is how to set a class in HTML
<div class=”myclass”>Your content<div>
