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CSS

Written by Editorial staff | Oct 24, 2022 7:34:27 PM
What is CSS?

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to style and lay out web pages. While HTML controls the structure of a document with paragraphs, headers and images, CSS is used to alter the font, color, size, and spacing of your content, split it into multiple columns, or add animations and other decorative features. CSS allows us to control exactly how HTML elements look in the browser, presenting the markup using whatever design you like.

CSS is a rule-based language — you define the rules by specifying groups of styles that should be applied to particular elements or groups of elements on your web page. These rules can then be applied across multiple pages. CSS has a simple syntax and uses a number of English keywords to specify the names of various style properties.

CSS not only helps with the visuals and better user experience, but it also provides faster page speed, quicker development time, easy maintenance, and compatibility across devices.
As stylesheets are getting larger, more complex, and harder to maintain, a CSS pre-processor Sass (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheet) was developed to help with these issues. Sass lets you use features that do not exist in CSS, like variables, nested rules, mixins, imports, inheritance, built-in functions, and other stuff. It is an extension of CSS that is completely compatible with it. The most used Sass syntax is SCSS (“Sassy CSS”).

Cegal and CSS

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