CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets — basically the secret sauce that makes web pages look good instead of just being a wall of text.
If HTML is the skeleton of a website, then CSS is the skin, clothes, and overall vibe — colors, layouts, fonts, spacing, animations, you name it.
Here’s the breakdown:
Cascading → means styles flow down from parent to child elements, and if multiple rules conflict, there’s a specific order (or “cascade”) that decides which one wins.
Style → defines how the content looks (color, size, font, margins, etc.).
Sheets → these are external files (usually .css) that store all the style rules in one place.
A tiny example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
background-color: #f0f0f0;
font-family: Arial;
}
h1 {
color: royalblue;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
If HTML is the skeleton of a website, then CSS is the skin, clothes, and overall vibe — colors, layouts, fonts, spacing, animations, you name it.
Here’s the breakdown:
Cascading → means styles flow down from parent to child elements, and if multiple rules conflict, there’s a specific order (or “cascade”) that decides which one wins.
Style → defines how the content looks (color, size, font, margins, etc.).
Sheets → these are external files (usually .css) that store all the style rules in one place.
A tiny example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
background-color: #f0f0f0;
font-family: Arial;
}
h1 {
color: royalblue;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
</body>
</html>
Output:
Hello, World!
💡 What CSS Really Does:
CSS is a style language used to describe how HTML elements should appear on a screen, paper, or any other media.
It controls things like:
Colors → text, backgrounds, borders
Fonts → type, size, weight, spacing
Layout → margins, padding, positioning, grids, flexbox
Animations → fades, slides, spins, and other visual effects
It’s basically how web designers make websites feel alive.
CSS is a style language used to describe how HTML elements should appear on a screen, paper, or any other media.
It controls things like:
Colors → text, backgrounds, borders
Fonts → type, size, weight, spacing
Layout → margins, padding, positioning, grids, flexbox
Animations → fades, slides, spins, and other visual effects
It’s basically how web designers make websites feel alive.