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Web Programming: Lecture 3: CSS Introduction

The document discusses the different ways to add CSS to HTML documents including inline, internal, and external CSS. Inline CSS uses the style attribute, internal CSS uses the <style> element, and external CSS links to a separate .css file.

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Web Programming: Lecture 3: CSS Introduction

The document discusses the different ways to add CSS to HTML documents including inline, internal, and external CSS. Inline CSS uses the style attribute, internal CSS uses the <style> element, and external CSS links to a separate .css file.

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Web Programming

Lecture 3: CSS Introduction


What is CSS?
• CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
• CSS saves a lot of work. It can control the layout of
multiple web pages all at once.
• With CSS, you can control the color, font, the size of
text, the spacing between elements, how elements
are positioned and laid out, what background images
or background colors are to be used, different displays
for different devices and screen sizes, and much
more!
Using CSS
CSS can be added to HTML documents in 3 ways:
• Inline - by using the style attribute inside HTML elements
• Internal - by using a <style> element in the <head> section
• External - by using a <link> element to link to an external CSS file
Inline CSS
• An inline CSS is used to apply a unique style to a single HTML
element.
• An inline CSS uses the style attribute of an HTML element.
• The following example sets the text color of the <h1> element to
blue, and the text color of the <p> element to red:

• <h1 style="color:blue;">A Blue Heading</h1>

<p style="color:red;">A red paragraph.</p>


Internal CSS
• An internal CSS is used to define a style for a single HTML page.

• An internal CSS is defined in the <head> section of an HTML page,


within a <style> element.

• The following example sets the text color of ALL the <h1> elements
(on that page) to blue, and the text color of ALL the <p> elements
to red. In addition, the page will be displayed with a "powderblue"
background color:
Internal CSS
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {background-color: powderblue;}
h1 {color: blue;}
p {color: red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
External CSS
• An external style sheet is used to define the style for many HTML
pages.

• To use an external style sheet, add a link to it in the <head> section


of each HTML page

• The external style sheet can be written in any text editor. The file
must not contain any HTML code, and must be saved with a .css
extension.
External CSS
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
External CSS
• Here is what the "styles.css" file looks like:

body {
background-color: powderblue;
}
h1 {
color: blue;
}
p{
color: red;
}

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