CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Stylesheets, and is a language. CSS is stylizes websites. With CSS enables a person to can define the colours, fonts, scrollbars, textareas, etc.

Stylesheet

Start by opening a program that can create txt files(e.g. Microsoft Wordpad). "Copy and Paste" parts then modify them to your liking. When you finish your cascadingstylesheet save the file as stylesheet.css. Check that the file is not a .txt file.

Main Text

Three components make up your main text. They are text is colour, font-size, and font-family. A good font-size to choose is in between 10px-15px.


body {
color: #COLOURCODE;
font-size: NUMBERHEREpx;
font-family: FONTNAME;
}

Special Text

To edit bold, underlined, or italicized text use the code below.


b{font-size:NUMBERHEREpx; font-family:FONTNAME; color:#COLOURCODE}

i{font-size:NUMBERHEREpx; font-family:FONTNAME; color:#COLOURCODE}

u{font-size:NUMBERHEREpx; font-family:FONTNAME; color:#COLOURCODE border-bottom:1px solid #COLOURCODEOFTHEUNDERLINE;}

Links

To edit the how links look use the code below.


a:link,a:visited,a:active
{
font-size:NUMBERHEREpx;
font-weight: normal;
color:#COLOURCODE;
}

a:hover
{
font-size:NUMBERHEREpx;
font-weight: normal;
color:#COLOURCODE;
}

Images

This code creates the border of the images of your site. It impacts the thickness, colour, and type of border (e.g. dashed or solid).


img {
   border:NUMBERHEREpx solid #COLOURCODE;
}

Getting it to appear onto your site

Simply copy this code below to your website on every page your website has if your pages are htm/html/xhtml files.


<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="stylesheet.css" TYPE="text/css">