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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a way to control the formatting of your web pages. They are meant to replace the depreciated style tags, like the <FONT> tag. Eventually, style sheets will determine almost all stylistic markup and HTML or XML will be used for structure to make better documents overall. Unfortunately, style sheets are not uniformly accepted or displayed, so test carefully before you rely too heavily on them.

These pages will help give you an introduction to style sheets.

• Introduction to CSS:: How Style Sheets Work
• How CSS Cascades:: How CSS Structure Applies Multiple Styles
• Display Types in CSS:: How CSS Structures Overall Elements
• Using CSS:: Ways to include style in web pages
• Syntax:: Basic style sheet syntax
• Properties:: A few of the most-used style tags and properties
• Classes & IDs:: Making classes and IDs for CSS documents
• Pseudo-Elements and Classes:: For relationships that don't have tags and tag states
• Backgrounds:: Using CSS to make nifty backgrounds
• Colors:: Help with specifying colors with CSS
• Text Spacing and Alignment:: Controlling text size, spacing, and more
• Fonts:: Controlling and Specifying Fonts with CSS
• Lists:: Lists and Floats with CSS
• Boxes/Borders:: Using boxes and borders for page layout
• DIV Structure:: Using DIV instead of tables for page structure
• Drop Down Menus:: Making Drop Down menus with CSS
• Tips and Tricks:: Nifty tips and tricks with CSS
• Examples:: Examples of pages that use CSS

The World Wide Web Consortium (the people in charge of changes made to the HTML standard) has a handy-dandy set of pages that link to lots of useful CSS resources. See the W3 CSS resources.

See the W3's CSS validator, which will check your code and advise you of any errors.