CSS is a recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that gives authors and readers more control ove the look and layout of HTML and XML documents.
Using CSS, you can control:
- fonts, font sizes, and font colors
- line spacing and length
- margins and indents
- background images and colors . . . and much more.
Amoung the benefits of using CSS to authors are:
- The HTML code becomes much simpler and more manageable
- using relative measurements in your style sheet, you can style your documents to look good on any monitor at any resolution
- you have finer and more predictale control over presentation
- you can define the look of a site in one place, and change the whole site by changing just the one file
- people with older browsers can see your pages
- people with disabilities have better access to your pages
CSS is implemented in many browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari, Konqueror, and Netscape Navigator.
For more information on CSS, its specification, tutorials, and examples, see the sources given below.