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    The document explains CSS syntax and different ways to apply CSS styles including external, internal and inline styles. It also covers CSS selectors like element, class, ID and attribute selectors as well as CSS comments and how multiple style sheets are handled.

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    The document explains CSS syntax and different ways to apply CSS styles including external, internal and inline styles. It also covers CSS selectors like element, class, ID and attribute selectors as well as CSS comments and how multiple style sheets are handled.

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    Syntax

    selector {property: value}


    ex

    body {color: black}


    p {font-family: "sans serif"}
    p {text-align:center;color:red}
    p
    {
    text-align: center;
    color: black;
    font-family: arial
    }

    Grouping
    h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6
    {
    color: green
    }

    The class Selector


    p.right {text-align: right}
    p.center {text-align: center}
    You have to use the class attribute in your HTML document:

    <p class="right">
    This paragraph will be right-aligned.
    </p>
    <p class="center">
    This paragraph will be center-aligned.
    </p>
    Note: To apply more than one class per given element, the syntax is:

    <p class="center bold">


    This is a paragraph.
    </p>
    The paragraph above will be styled by the class "center" AND the class "bold".
    You can also omit the tag name in the selector to define a style that will be used by all HTML
    elements that have a certain class. In the example below, all HTML elements with class="center"
    will be center-aligned:

    .center {text-align: center}

    ex

    <h1 class="center">
    This heading will be center-aligned
    </h1>
    <p class="center">
    This paragraph will also be center-aligned.
    </p>
    Do NOT start a class name with a number! It will not work in Mozilla/Firefox.

    Add Styles to Elements with Particular Attributes


    input[type="text"] {background-color: blue}

    The id Selector
    #green {color: green}
    The style rule below will match the p element that has an id with a value of "para1":

    p#para1
    {
    text-align: center;
    color: red
    }
    Do NOT start an ID name with a number! It will not work in Mozilla/Firefox.

    CSS Comments
    Comments are used to explain your code, and may help you when you edit the source code at a
    later date. A comment will be ignored by browsers. A CSS comment begins with "/*", and ends with
    "*/", like this:

    /* This is a comment */
    p
    {
    text-align: center;
    /* This is another comment */
    color: black;
    font-family: arial
    }

    How to Insert a Style Sheet


    When a browser reads a style sheet, it will format the document according to it. There are three
    ways of inserting a style sheet:

    External Style Sheet


    An external style sheet is ideal when the style is applied to many pages. With an external style
    sheet, you can change the look of an entire Web site by changing one file. Each page must link to
    the style sheet using the <link> tag. The <link> tag goes inside the head section:

    <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
    href="mystyle.css" />
    </head>
    The browser will read the style definitions from the file mystyle.css, and format the document
    according to it.
    An external style sheet can be written in any text editor. The file should not contain any html tags.
    Your style sheet should be saved with a .css extension. An example of a style sheet file is shown
    below:

    hr {color: sienna}
    p {margin-left: 20px}
    body {background-image: url("images/back40.gif")}

    Do NOT leave spaces between the property value and the units! If you use "margin-left: 20 px"
    instead of "margin-left: 20px" it will only work properly in IE6 but it will not work in Mozilla/Firefox
    or Netscape.

    Internal Style Sheet


    An internal style sheet should be used when a single document has a unique style. You define
    internal styles in the head section by using the <style> tag, like this:

    <head>
    <style type="text/css">
    hr {color: sienna}
    p {margin-left: 20px}
    body {background-image: url("images/back40.gif")}
    </style>
    </head>
    The browser will now read the style definitions, and format the document according to it.
    Note: A browser normally ignores unknown tags. This means that an old browser that does not
    support styles, will ignore the <style> tag, but the content of the <style> tag will be displayed on
    the page. It is possible to prevent an old browser from displaying the content by hiding it in the
    HTML comment element:

    <head>
    <style type="text/css">
    <!-hr {color: sienna}
    p {margin-left: 20px}
    body {background-image: url("images/back40.gif")}
    -->
    </style>
    </head>

    Inline Styles
    An inline style loses many of the advantages of style sheets by mixing content with presentation.
    Use this method sparingly, such as when a style is to be applied to a single occurrence of an
    element.
    To use inline styles you use the style attribute in the relevant tag. The style attribute can contain
    any CSS property. The example shows how to change the color and the left margin of a paragraph:

    <p style="color: sienna; margin-left: 20px">


    This is a paragraph
    </p>

    Multiple Style Sheets


    If some properties have been set for the same selector in different style sheets, the values will be
    inherited from the more specific style sheet.
    For example, an external style sheet has these properties for the h3 selector:

    h3
    {
    color: red;
    text-align: left;
    font-size: 8pt
    }
    And an internal style sheet has these properties for the h3 selector:

    h3
    {
    text-align: right;
    font-size: 20pt
    }
    If the page with the internal style sheet also links to the external style sheet the properties for h3
    will be:

    color: red;
    text-align: right;
    font-size: 20pt
    The color is inherited from the external style sheet and the text-alignment and the font-size is
    replaced by the internal style sheet

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