Cascading Stylesheet Help

CSS Tutorials
A series of pages that that introduce the beginner to writing their own stylesheets.
CSS Reference
A series of pages that summarize all of the CSS 2.1 properties.
CSS How To
How to achieve specific results with CSS.
CSS Hints and Tips
Modify your web page appearance using CSS.

In addition to the coding solutions listed in this section, you will find some additional solutions offered on the HTML, Javascript, and interactive web pages.

HTML should be used to define the content of your web page, Javascript should be used to define how it behaves. In between the two and interacting with both we have cascading stylesheets (also known as CSS). Stylesheets define the appearance of your web page.

Long gone are the days where you would use <font> tags to define the fonts to be used in your web page. Almost as long gone are the days of using align="center" to centre the content of your page. As for using tables for layout well that is so limiting as well as being a misuse of what tables are for. By using stylesheet commands to define the way that your web content looks as well as how the page is laid out you open up a number of possibilities that are not available any other way.

Your HTML is smaller and more of it is content so you should get higher search engine rankings.
You can create more flexible page layouts
You can create different page layouts for different devices such as for handhelds and printing
It is much easier to amend the appearance of all of the pages on your site in one go when that appearance is done using stylesheets that are separate from the content

With all those advantages why would anyone NOT use stylesheets to define their page layout?

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