UNIT –II
Cascading Style Sheets: Introduction, using Styles, simple examples, your own styles, properties and values in styles, style sheet, formatting blocks of information, layers.
Introduction:-
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of presentation and content, including aspects such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple HTML pages to share formatting by specifying the relevant CSS in a separate. css file, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. It can also display the web page differently depending on the screen size or viewing device. Readers can also specify a different style sheet, such as a CSS file stored on their own computer, to override the one the author specified.
Advantages of CSS :- CSS saves time − You can write CSS once and then reuse same sheet in multiple HTML pages. You can define a style for each HTML element and apply it to as many Web pages as you want.
Pages load faster − If you are using CSS, you do not need to write HTML tag attributes every time. Just write one CSS rule of a tag and apply it to all the occurrences of that tag. So less code means faster download times.
Easy maintenance − To make a global change, simply change the style, and all elements in all the web pages will be updated automatically.
Superior styles to HTML − CSS has a much wider array of attributes than HTML, so you can give a far better look to your HTML page in comparison to HTML attributes.
Multiple Device Compatibility − Style sheets allow content to be optimized for more than one type of device. By using the same HTML document, different versions of a website can be presented for handheld devices such as PDAs and cell phones or for printing.
Global web standards − Now HTML attributes are being deprecated and it is being recommended to use CSS. So its a good idea to start using CSS in all the HTML pages to make them compatible to future browsers.
Offline Browsing − CSS can store web applications locally with the help of an offline catche.Using of this, we can view offline websites.The cache also ensures faster loading and better overall performance of the website. Platform Independence − The Script offer consistent platform independence and can support latest browsers as well.
1.Types of CSS:-
There are three types of cascading style sheet(css) are listed below:
1. Inline Style Sheet 2. Internal Style Sheet / Embedded Style Sheet and 3. External Style Sheet
1.Inline Style Sheet:-
Inline style sheets are declared within individual tags and affect those tags only. Inline style sheets are declared with the style attribute. Every CSS change has to be made in every tag that has the inline style applied to it. The inline style is good for one an individual CSS change that you do not use repeatedly through the site.
Syntax:
Example:
Cascading Style Sheet
//inline.html
Output:-
Cascading Inline Style Sheet Style Sheet
Inline Style Sheet
2.Internal Style Sheet / Embedded Style Sheet:-
An internal style sheet holds the CSS code for the webpage in the head section of the particular file. This makes it easy to apply styles like classes or id’ in order to reuse the code. The downside(body section) of using an internal style sheet is that changes to the internal style sheet only effect the page the code is inserted into. The text-transform:uppercase; } p{ font-family:algerian; font-style:italic; //internal.html:- }
Using Internal Style Sheet
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