COMPSCI 1BA3 Chapter Notes -Cascading Style Sheets, The Selector, Xhtml

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: COMPSCI 1BA3
• Professor: Dr.Hurst

Document Summary

Using css element selectors to format web pages. Session 3. 1 introducing cascading style sheets the formatting of your web pages. Css provides a way to easily and efficiently format an unlimited number of web pages so they have the same appearance. Css offers many advantages over using xhtml alone, including the following: The purpose of xhtml is to create structure for the page content. Cascading style sheet (css) is used for the presentation- You can apply styles you create in one document to some or all of the other pages in your web site. Easily modified code: when you modify code to change the style of one page, all of the pages in your web site can change, which can help you maintain a consistent design. More flexible formatting: you can format and position text in ways that you cannot with xhtml.