What is CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is used to describe the look and feel of the webpage written in HTML.

It provides the additional feature to HTML. It is more used with HTML to change the HTML tags behaviour or HTML tag Interface.

CSS is used along with HTML, Javascript and Jquery in the most websites to create user interface for web applications.

What is the purpose of CSS?

CSS is mostly used to design the interactive webpages. By using CSS you can change the entire look and feel of the webpage.

CSS is a global for the document, means if you want to change the color of all the heading elements <h1> you just need to specify the css for one place and all your document heading elements color will be change.

CSS solved the big problem:

Before CSS, developer have to write the a lot of and repeated code on every webpage for to change font, color, background style, alignments, border and size This was a very long process. For example: If you are developing a large website where fonts and color information are added on every single page, it will be become a long and expensive process. CSS was created to solve this problem. It was a W3C recommendation.

CSS Saved a lot of time:

CSS Styles code are saved in external CSS files so it is possible to change the entire website by changing just one file.

Provides more attributes:

CSS provides more detailed attributes than plain HTML.