There are three types of style sheets that can influence the presentation of an HTML document in a browser. These are
Figure 1.1. The three types of style sheets that influence the presentation of a web page.
Cascading means that styles can fall (or cascade) from one style sheet to another. The cascade is used to determine which rules will take precedence and be applied to a document. For example, rules in author style sheets will generally take precedence over rules in user style sheets. Rules in user and author style sheets will take precedence over rules in the browser's default style sheet.
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