--- title: "What is CSS?" description: "What is CSS?" author: "Anonymous User" published: 2012-12-13 updated: 2012-12-13 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/488/what-is-css category: "css-css3" tags: ["css-css3"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # What is CSS? Hi all and sundry persons\ \ [please tell me](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33900/please-tell-me-what-are-the-technique-to-content-optimization) concrete meaning of [css](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/514/background-gradient-ie7-css-problem) in brief statement?\ \ Thanks in advance. ## Replies ### Reply by AVADHESH PATEL Hi Ankit Singh\ \ **1. CSS stands** for Cascading Style Sheets and is a simple styling language which allows attaching style to HTML elements. Every element type as well as every occurrence of a specific element within that type can be declared a unique style, e.g. margins, positioning, color or size. 2. CSS is a web standard that describes style for XML/HTML documents. 3. CSS is a language that adds style (colors, images, borders, margins…) to your site. It’s really that simple. CSS is not used to put any content on your site, it’s just there to take the content you have and make it pretty. First thing you do is link a CSS-file to your HTML document. Do this by adding this line: The line should be placed in between your and tags. If you have several pages you could add the exact same line to all of them and they will all use the same stylesheet, but more about that later. Let’s look inside the file "style.css" we just linked to. h1 { font-size: 40px; height: 200px; } .warning { color: Red; font-weight: bold; } #footer { background-color: Gray; } 4. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, and spacing) to Web documents. This is also where information meets the artistic abilities of a web-designer. CSS helps you spice up your web-page and make it look neat in wide variety of aspects. I hope this is a concrete post --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/488/what-is-css Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.