Intro to Cascading Style Sheets

Skills Covered
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Styles
Attach Style Sheet
Redefine HTML Tag
Selector
Declaration

When you want to apply a consistent formatting scheme to multiple pages in a web site, you can save considerable time by using Cascading Style Sheets - usually abvrieviated at CSS. You can use CSS files to modify or redefine HTML tags (such as the H1 tag), or you can create a set of new formatting attributes, called styles, that can be applied to specific items.

For this lesson, I took an old copy of Sudeep Desai's site and modified it, without his permission. You may make a copy of your entire folder for the purposes of experimenting with it, just in case you aren't happy with your final results and want to revert back.