What Is CSS
- CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS is used to design HTML tags.
- CSS is a widely used language on the web.
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript are used for web designing. It helps the web designers to apply style on HTML tags.
What does CSS do
- You can add new looks to your old HTML documents.
- You can completely change the look of your website with only a few changes in CSS code.
Why use CSS
These are the three major benefits of CSS:
- Solves a big problem
Before CSS, tags like font, color, background style, element alignments, border and size had to be repeated on every web page. This was a very long process. For example: If you are developing a large website where fonts and color information are added on every single page, it will be become a long and expensive process. CSS was created to solve this problem. It was a W3C recommendation. - Saves a lot of time
CSS style definitions are saved in external CSS files so it is possible to change the entire website by changing just one file. - Provide more attributes CSS provides more detailed attributes than plain HTML to define the look and feel of the website.