Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, 5th Edition

CHAPTER

Configuring

Color and Text

with CSS

●Describe the evolution of style sheets from print

media to the Web

●List advantages of using Cascading Style

Sheets

●Use color on Web pages

●Create style sheets that configure common color

and text properties

●Apply inline styles

●Use embedded style sheets

●Use external style sheets

●Create CSS classand idselectors

●Validate CSS

Now that you have been introduced to XHTML, you are

ready to explore Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS is not new—it was first

proposed as a standard by the W3C in 1996. However, browsers and other

user agents have only supported this technology consistently for the past sev-

eral years. Now that there is fairly steady support, Web developers have begun

to use CSS to separate the presentation style of a Web page from the informa-

tion on the Web page itself. CSS is used to configure text, color, and page

layout.

This chapter introduces you to the use of CSS on the Web as you explore con-

figuring color and text.

Chapter Objectives In this chapter, you will learn how to ...

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