Lesson Anatomy of a web page 2
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In this lesson we're going to look at a few more elements that make up your average web page. We're going to give you a brief introduction to CSS and the relationship between CSS and HTML, take a look at the very useful "div" and "span" tags, touch briefly on Tables, and crown it all off with the often misunderstood Doctype.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
I've mentioned CSS more than once, and it's time to throw back the curtain on what is indisputably the wizard behind today's fancy website designs.
CSS stands for "cascading style sheet". It's the place where you say "I want all my headings to be 16 pixels, bold, red, and use Arial font", or where you say "I want all my menu boxes to be 200 pixels wide, have a blue border, and hang out on the right-hand side of the page".
Your CSS contains all the information about the presentational parts of your page. It's what makes your page look pretty. Most of the time it's kept apart from your normal HTML, and very frequently it's kept in an...
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