CSS Styles and Sheets?

[Guest]

I keep reading on how CSS sheets and styles are good and how sites and pages
should use them. However I do not really understand what a CSS sheet/style
is and the benefits of one? What does it do/allow that another sheet does
not? What does it allow over other pages?

and how is the best way to create one when you have no understanding of it
or its fundamentals?

 

[Guest]

What a style sheet is is a list of definitions for your web pages that you
link to like you would an image. So for example, if you wanted all the
hyperlinks on your web pages to be green you would write this into the style
sheet and then link all your pages to the style sheet. Then at a later date
if you wanted to change the hyperlink colour to pink, instead of changing the
colour on each page of your site, you simply change the colour on your style
sheet from green to pink and every page that is linked to the style sheet
will change automatically.
A style sheet can similarly be used to control font types, sizes etc.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Conceptually similar to using styles in Word.


|I keep reading on how CSS sheets and styles are good and how sites and
pages
| should use them. However I do not really understand what a CSS
sheet/style
| is and the benefits of one? What does it do/allow that another sheet does
| not? What does it allow over other pages?
|
| and how is the best way to create one when you have no understanding of it
| or its fundamentals?
|
|

 

[David Berry]

See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140116(office.10).aspx for an
overview of CSS and stylesheets.

 

[Guest]

That Helps Thanks!

Can you create a style sheet for a page that you will use the same
repeatedly, however the form properties would be changing by me not the
viewers? and with these pages, would they all be named differently or as the
same page? and also, could you have different links going to each differnt
page?

How would you create this page then? and submit it into the page you create?

 

[David Berry]

See the part of the article about linking a style sheet to a page.