Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents."

Rafael A. Hinojosa
rhinojos@haverford.edu

Intro

These pages are to serve as an introduction (and reference) to enabled you to get started using Cascading Style Sheets. These pages assume that you, the reader, are comfortable reading basic HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are most commonly used to add style to web pages written in HTML.

Requirements

A basic text editor (TextEdit, NotePad) or HTML editor (Dreamweaver, Netscape Composer).
A web browser that support CSS (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari)
A basic understanding of HTML.

Topics

CSS & HTML
Creating Styles
Adding Class
Text - Fonts & Colors
Text - Layout
Tables - Boxes & Layout

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