Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used with HTML to give a web page designers centralized control over the appearance of each page. CSS rules work best when stored in a stylesheet document, but style rules can also be embedded into a web page (in the header) or used inline (in a tag).

## Contents

* 1 Format
* 2 References
* 3 See also
* 4 External links

## Format[edit]

All definitions in CSS are written as

selector {
property: value;

For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type,

body {
background:red;
color:maroon

Body is the selector - meaning you want to edit a characteristic of the body in html, background and color are the properties - background refers to the background color and color refers to the text color, and then red and maroon are the given values for those properties.

## References[edit]

* A comprehensive CSS Reference at mozilla.org
* A CSS tutorial

## See also[edit]

* HTML \- HyperText Markup Language
* JavaScript \- Primary language for scripting webpages

## External links[edit]

* https://www.w3c.org/