Hour 15. Formatting Your Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets and HTML Styles

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enable you to apply a property or group of properties to an object by applying a style to that object. You define and apply styles in Dreamweaver's CSS Styles panel. When thinking about styles, you usually think of creating and applying styles to text, which certainly is possible. However, styles can be used for positioning objects, creating borders, and lots more.

One of the benefits of using styles is the ability to simultaneously update every object with a certain style. If you create a default style, such as a style defined as Arial 12-point text, you can later change the font to Times Roman and all the objects with that style will ...

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