You need a .html file with HTML code inside and a .css file containing your CSS instructions.
For your CSS instructions, you'd move HTML instructions for presentation and appearance to your CSS file. For example, let's say in your HTML mark-up you now have a long section for your "Style" commands. These usually cover things like font size, font color, background image or color, and margins. As you move each HTML piece, you re-write it with CSS codes. Instead of numerous HTML instances that say you want all H1 levels to be a font size 12, you'd have one instance of code in the CSS that controls all instances of H1.
Once you've got these 2 files you need to link the .css file inside your .html file in the
section.To reference your .css you typically insert the following:
CSS layouts can be created in an external CSS file. The extension of the file should be CSS only.
You can use it anywhere that supports a link to a CSS file.
A CSS file can tell the web browser how a web page is supposed to look. The web page (HTML file) itself says what words are on the page, and which pictures, but you CAN use the CSS file to specify what goes where, how big, what color and font, and things like that.You CAN also specify all those things in the HTML file. The biggest advantages of using separate CSS are:The same CSS file can be used for all pages in a site, so if you want to change something, you can just change it in one place, and all the pages will now look the way you want.If you use the same CSS file for every page, your pages will load faster, since the browser does not re-fetch the CSS file every time.
Templates can be composed of HTML/XHTML files, images, and a CSS file. They all work together to make a site, but the CSS has the control over how it looks. A CSS file by itself is just that. A CSS file of no use until it is linked to bt web pages to use its styling properties.
How toYou can use CSS as an external file imported into a HTML file or CSS can be embedded into the HEAD section of a HTML page.Creating/Editing a CSS fileYou can create a CSS file by saving a .txt file as a .css file type. The easiest way though to edit CSS is by searching the web to find a Text Editor, an editor is usually free to download and will allow a user to manipulate CSS and HTML files and to save them.Importing CSS into a HTML fileTo import a CSS file into a HTML file a STYLE declaration must be made inside the HEAD tags of the document and a link to the CSS file is placed within the STYLE tags, see example below.Linking CSS into a HTML fileTo link a CSS file into a a HTML file, a LINK tag must be used and placed within the HEAD tags. Embedding CSS into a HTML fileTo embed CSS styles into a HTML file a STYLE tag must be used to contain the CSS, see example below.
if you neglected to save your css file in a .css format, then it may not work.
Embedded CSS simply means that your CSS is written in an external file (i.e. not in your HTML file). The external file can be anywhere on your server and must end in ".css". You would call this CSS file from inside your HTML file like this:On the otherhand, inline CSS is when your CSS is included inside of your HTML code, for example:foo
In CSS you would use: /* to open the comment , and the reverse */ to close In HTML it is: <!-- to open and --> to close
Any text editor will, just save the file with .css at the end.
In order to use a Cascading Style Sheet, you must link it to your site by placing this line of code between your tags:You would enter the name of your CSS file where it says "yourstylesheet.css". Make sure that this file is in your root folder.
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CSS handles the presentation portion of displaying an HTML document on the web. That is to say that CSS makes things like color, size, shape, weight, etc. possible in HTML. To say that CSS "enhances" HTML, however, is an over simplification. CSS provides separate and different functionality than HTML does. HTML does not have the abilities inherent in CSS. Instead, the CSS code makes HTML code more palatable for a human user. Most web spiders, for instance, do not employ HTML fully, if at all.