From the course: Web Programming Foundations
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CSS
- [Tutor] CCS or Cascading Style Sheets is the presentational markup used to give the browser instructions about the appearance of HTML elements. CSS was introduced to create a clear separation between the content, HTML markup and its presentation, CSS rules, this was in response to an early trend of using tables and frames and layers to force layouts on a vertical document by building presentational elements right into the HTML, thereby mixing the content with things that were not meaningful and also messing up the content in the process. The switch from table, frames and layer spaced layouts to pure CSS layouts meant people could choose how they wanted to access HTML documents, either with the styles the designer and developer has applied or without. A text to speech browser, for example, will largely ignore CSS, since visual presentation does not translate into audio. Out of the box, the browser has a set of predefined CSS rules it applies to all HTML elements, this is why when you…
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