I really rate cascading style sheets! From a design point of view CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) have opened up the world of design for the web in a big way. There is so much you can do with cascading style sheets that you could not do before. Previously to style up your HTML you had to use tags and reams of information packed into them including colours, fonts, positional information and much more which is now contained in the cascading style sheets.

Once you have defined a style in your CSS document you can reference it multiple times without having to write the CSS each time you wish to use that particular style.

External style sheets allow you to write one master cascading style sheet document which contains all your CSS. By linking your pages to this document you can use these styles throughout your entire site.

The cascading style sheets section of the laboratory will continually be added to as I find out new ways of using CSS.

Cascading Style Sheets tutorials

Please note the cascading style sheets area of the laboratory is not somewhere to learn about how to write CSS. You can use any of the cascading style sheets on this site, but although I comment the CSS code where necessary, I expect you to have the knowledge to use and implement the style sheets. There are loads of great places on the internet where you can learn how to write your own cascading style sheets and help you to pick your way through the CSS effects I have on this site.

Below are some cascading style sheets sites that I find helpful.

http://www.w3schools.com/css
CSS Tutorial

http://www.alistapart.com
A List Apart