Using Stylesheets in XHTML

You can use stylesheets in several ways in XHTML. As we already saw in this chapter, you can use the <link> element to connect an external stylesheet to a document, like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/tr/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>
            Working With External Style Sheets
        </title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    </head>

    <body>
       <center>
           <h1>
               Working With External Style Sheets
           </h1>
           <p>
           This document is displayed using an external style sheet.
           </p>
       </center>
    </body>
</html>

This XHTML links the Web page to an external stylesheet named style.css, written in CSS (refer ...

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