CSS Basics

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. If HTML is the skeleton of your webpage, defining structure, CSS is the skin. It describes the visual style of a page. The syntax of the language is different from HTML and there are a number of different ways to use it.

Things you can do with CSS

• change font-family
• font-size
• alignment of elements, and text
• spacing around elements
• change text color and background-color (We will discuss this as part of our work on web colors, color theory, and palette creation).
• and much more!