CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is used in conjunction with HTML and JavaScript to create an intuitive, interactive, and seamless web and mobile experience.
CSS adds style, animation, and interaction to the websites. The majority of the websites on the internet are based on HTML, CSS, and JS, all three of them together create powerful and aesthetically refined web and mobile software experience. CSS will add colors, layouts, elements, fonts, and animations to HTML pages.
HTML is the markup language that is linked with CSS files via internal linking and external linking. CSS can be integrated with HTML by including the CSS files with the HTML documents; the link attribute is used to link internal and external stylesheets. Stylesheet integration enhances the User experience and makes the web experience simpler, intuitive, smoother, and refined.
Note: CSS can be integrated with XML as well, both HTML and XML can be integrated with CSS.
CSS files can be hosted on first-party servers, they can also be hosted on third-party servers. CDNs are leveraged to host CSS files all across the globe.
Front-end developers use CSS to define the styling for an HTML document. The CSS code also determines the layout of the website, and all aspects related to aesthetics and styling can be controlled through CSS.
The proper integration of HTML and CSS results in well-organized, intuitive, and visually appealing web pages. CSS can be internally coded or linked externally using the Link Tag in HTML.
CSS files have a .css extension and a media type of text/css. They were invented by the World Wide Web Consortium, and their specifications are maintained by the W3C consortium. The latest stable release is CSS 4.
CSS is simple. It consists of selectors, coordinators, types, and pseudo-classes. CSS-based frameworks like Bootstrap standardize aesthetics.
Some Popular CSS methodologies are :
- Object-oriented CSS
- Atomic CSS
- Organic CSS
- BEM
Note: Markup languages like XML, XHTML, SVG, and Xul leverage CSS. Markup languages integrated with CSS render GUI.
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