What are Styles?
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What are Cascading Style Sheets?

Why use CSS?
CSS is standardized to ensure ...
Accesibility, cross platform, interactivity, manageability

For example:

[Creating a simple style]

[creating anew external style sheet]
[Creating a new rule]
[Style tables]
[Style hyperlinks]
[Creating a psudo-style]
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Common applications of cascading style sheets

Styling text
[Style text color]
[Set text size]
[Set text font familty]
[Set text alignment]

Using styles for format page elements
[Create style for a layer]
[Style form text]
[Style form buttons]

Using CSS To Create A Page Layout Design
CSS can also be used to position, align and format objects in page. In this way CSS can be used tyo create sophisticated page layout designs. One of the main advataged to using CSS to create page designs is that the way a page looks can be presicely controlled even if the user does not have a up to date browser. Designs that gracefully degrade when in "incompable" browsers make sure that the user experience is not affected by the browser or plugins they have.
By treating objects in a page linke seperate building blocks content can be seperated from the design making it easy to restyle a page using a different style sheet.

For example: Zen garden.
This website uses a variety of different style sheets to create different text style and layouts. But each page although very different in appearence uses the same content.

Zen garden invites designs to create different css layouts and designs for thier web page. Each layout uses the same content page and creates a entiely new page design buy using external css to control styles layouts and behaviors.

For more information on how to create page layout designs with CSS see: [Tableless Page Layouts with CSS Knowledgebase] (DWCS3)

Limitations and Problems Associated with Using CSS

• In line styles still need to update and save pages individually (use external)
• Some styles do not behave the same way in all browsers

CSS has come along way over the past few years all modern browsers have adopted the w3 standards associated with it. Meaning that using styles for format and layout a web page is considered the new standard for web design.