Cascading Style Sheet or CSS Basics – An Intro
Before proceeding with what is Cascading Style Sheet, let me write a little about what HTML is. HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is what structures a document and tells browsers the function of each element. An element can either be the Title, Heading, a Link, an Image, etc. However, CSS is something that gives instructions to browsers on how to display the elements in a page. Elements like styling, spacing, positioning, etc. are done by CSS. If HTML is the bricks and gaits that constitute the structure of a building, CSS is the paint and plaster that decorate the building and make it either pleasant or horrible to look at.
Nowadays, people learn CSS and HTML by themselves and there is hardly any need for software development company to help them. CSS is executed by using a system of rules that you will get to know of in my succeeding articles. These rules define what style a particular HTML element should have. These rules can manipulate styles within which are included certain properties of an element like the color, font size, font type, alignment, etc. In short, CSS can find a single or group of element and define their styles like color, size and alignment. As for example, CSS can find every element with a particular class name and color their backgrounds in green and increase or decrease the text inside them and make them look different from the normal paragraph text.
One thing to remember is that CSS is not a programming language like JavaScript neither a markup language like HTML. Cascading Style Sheet is what defines the look of a website. It works along with other markup language making websites look better and constant. It is something that was invented to keep the look of a certain web page constant though the internet or web environment changes with time. Change can be in any form. Once, people used only desktop and the laptop for browsing the internet but now people use mobiles, tablets and other multimedia devices to browse the internet and two different devices have different ways of displaying a website. This is when CSS comes to the rescue.
So, why hire any software development company or a web application development company to design your web page while you can learn it by yourself? When people are learning Android application development themselves, CSS is not a big issue.
Watch out for my next article on the same topic.
Nowadays, people learn CSS and HTML by themselves and there is hardly any need for software development company to help them. CSS is executed by using a system of rules that you will get to know of in my succeeding articles. These rules define what style a particular HTML element should have. These rules can manipulate styles within which are included certain properties of an element like the color, font size, font type, alignment, etc. In short, CSS can find a single or group of element and define their styles like color, size and alignment. As for example, CSS can find every element with a particular class name and color their backgrounds in green and increase or decrease the text inside them and make them look different from the normal paragraph text.
One thing to remember is that CSS is not a programming language like JavaScript neither a markup language like HTML. Cascading Style Sheet is what defines the look of a website. It works along with other markup language making websites look better and constant. It is something that was invented to keep the look of a certain web page constant though the internet or web environment changes with time. Change can be in any form. Once, people used only desktop and the laptop for browsing the internet but now people use mobiles, tablets and other multimedia devices to browse the internet and two different devices have different ways of displaying a website. This is when CSS comes to the rescue.
So, why hire any software development company or a web application development company to design your web page while you can learn it by yourself? When people are learning Android application development themselves, CSS is not a big issue.
Watch out for my next article on the same topic.
