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Understanding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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What are Cascading Style Sheets for?
== What are Cascading Style Sheets for? ==
In the early days of the world wide web all we had to create content on web pages was HTML. HTML does some things very well, but does not provide a great deal of control over style of web page content. Furthermore, what control it does give us has to be embedded into the content. Essentially this meant that style was not separated from content. If we wanted to change the overall look and feel of a web iste site we had to edit each individual web page and chaneg change the style settings.
Cascading Style Sheets allows us to specify the style of the content in a separate file which can be changed such that modifications are reflected in all pages that include that style sheet.
Withthe With the introduction of CSS it is now possible to define the document structure and content in HTML, while controling controlling the style and appearance using CSS.
== Embedding CSS Styles into a Web Page ==