Synonyms: Stylesheet
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a webpage written in HTML or XML. CSS controls the layout, colors, fonts, spacing, and overall visual appearance of a webpage, allowing developers to separate content (HTML) from design.
CSS enables you to apply styles consistently across multiple pages and offers flexibility in terms of layout, including responsive design for different screen sizes. Here’s what CSS can control:
- Text styling: Fonts, sizes, colors, and spacing between letters or lines.
- Layout: Positioning elements on the page, managing margins, padding, and grid systems.
- Visual elements: Background colors, images, borders, and animations.
The “Cascading” part of CSS refers to how styles are applied. If there are multiple style rules, they are applied in a cascading order, meaning some styles can override others based on importance or specificity.
By using CSS, websites become more efficient, easier to maintain, and visually appealing, creating a better user experience.