Chapter 36: Using Cascading Style Sheets

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Overview

As a specification set forth by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a standard designed to separate the visual presentation of content from the actual structural markup — a language used to render structured documents, such as HTML and XML, on screen, on paper, and verbally in speech.

What does this mean for you as a developer? It means that you no longer need to wrap a font tag around every block element to get the look you want. It means you can put the control of the way your page appears into a single location. It means that suddenly, your life just got easier!

Dreamweaver contains a revamped CSS Styles panel and an improved rendering of CSS within the Design view.

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