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Creating inline and embedded CSS styles

Creating inline and embedded CSS styles - SharePoint Tutorial

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Creating inline and embedded CSS styles

When using CSS on any web site, you have three choices of how to do it. You've got inline, embedded, or external CSS. Now most of what we'll focus on in this course is linking to external CSS files, simply because that's the most powerful way of doing it. And that's what we do with any web site, regardless of if we're using SharePoint or not. But let's also talk about the inline and the embedded methods here because they can be useful for those one-off situations. Inline and embedded CSS always affects only one page, so we start with the page that we want to change. Now, with a typical SharePoint web page like this Wiki page I'm looking at here, I can do it either in the browser or I can do it in SharePoint Designer, but if you're on a site with the publishing feature enabled, you won't be able to edit most pages directly in SharePoint Designer. That's an intentional restriction, and we'll talk about that issue in a later section. So I have this page open here and in just the normal…

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