Unit 18.2. Use Stylesheets

Advantages of Using Styles

The terms stylesheets and cascading style sheets (CSS) simply refer to a way to declare how you want to display something in an HTML document. Stylesheets let you create a set of properties and apply that set of properties as needed, throughout your document or across many different documents in a site.

Why are stylesheets increasingly popular? Stylesheets allow you to:

  • Enforce a consistent look and feel across an application

  • Avoid retyping formatting tags and attributes

  • Change the appearance of a site with less effort

  • Choose from more formatting options

  • Link content (tags) with display (formatting)

  • Manipulate appearance through JavaScript

The power of styles is that they are reused. One style ...

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