CSS-Cascading StyleSheet

CSS is abbraviation of Cascading StyleSheet. 

 

It is used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in html and xhtml, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.

 

It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup languages) from document presentation, including elements such as the color, fonts, and layout. This separation can improve content accessibility

 

 

It is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in html and xhtml, but the language can be applied to any kind of xml document, including SVG  and XUL.

 

It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and onBraille-based, tactile devices. While the author of a document typically links that document to a CSS stylesheet, readers can use a different stylesheet, perhaps one on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified.

 

It specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.

 

The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318 (March 1998).