CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

• Cascading Style Sheets (referred to as CSS from now on) is a declarative language introduced in
1996 as a standard means of adding information to HTML documents about style properties such as
fonts and borders.
• However, CSS actually works better with XML than with HTML because HTML is burdened with
backward-compatibility issues.
• A CSS style sheet contains a list of rules.
• Each rule gives the names of the elements it applies to and the styles to apply to those elements.