Lesson 8: CSS Basics

Learning objectives

In this lesson, you will learn about:

Distinguish between HTML and CSS.

Vocabulary:

Cascading Style Sheet

CSS is a web design language and is used to define the visual presentation on a web page. HTML brings structure and content to a webpage as CSS provides presentation details such as bordering, positioning and colouring

Brief History of CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets(CSS).
CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie and created CSS along with Bert Bos in 1996.

Differences between HTML and CSS

CSS

There are three different ways to add CSS to HTML documents.

Inline
Internal
External

Lesson 8: CSS Basics

Differences between HTML and CSS

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