Chapter 3. Adding Style Sheets to Documents

Like their counterparts in word processing and desktop publishing programs, HTML style sheets are supposed to simplify the deployment of fine-tuned formatting associated with content. Instead of surrounding every H1 element in a document with <FONT> tags to make all of those headings the same color, you can use a one-line style definition in a style sheet to assign a color to every instance of the H1 element on the page. Of course, now that style sheets make it easier to specify colors, margins, borders, and unusual element alignments, you are probably adding more HTML elements to your documents. So your documents may not be any smaller, but they should be more aesthetically pleasing, or at least closer to what you might design in a desktop publishing program.