Hour 6. Formatting Web Pages Using Cascading Style Sheets

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

How to create each of the three style types: classes, redefined HTML tags, and advanced styles

How to apply styles to elements in a web page

How to create an external style sheet for an entire website

How styles deal with conflicting and inherited properties

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard enables 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 or in the Page Properties dialog box, as you did in Hour 4, “Dealing with Words: Adding Text and Lists.” When thinking about styles, you usually think of creating and applying styles to ...

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