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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Use the Navigation Element

Posted by Sanchari Bhattacharya
Sanchari Bhattacharya
Courses Plus Student 5,751 Points

CSS

Explain the css embedding

2 Answers

Andrew Gray
Andrew Gray
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Andrew Gray
Andrew Gray
10,088 Points

Hi Sanchari, this seems like a vague request! What in particular are you having trouble with? Do you mean inserting CSS into an HTML doc without a stylesheet? It's like adding a second language to the page with a reference for the computer to read it. It is usually better practice to link to a stylesheet though.

Alexandria Jones
Alexandria Jones
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Alexandria Jones
Alexandria Jones
2,046 Points

CSS defines how elements are displayed on a page. Without linking your CSS files to your HTML, there is no clear-cut way for the HTML to adapt to the styling you have designated in your style sheet.

To do this you would place similar code in the head of your HTML file, and by doing so the browser will be able to style the page accordingly.

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">
</head>

External style sheets are idea to keep your work separate especially for projects with multiple pages or large quantities of content. But you can also include CSS internally, inline, in multiple forms, but those are intermediate to advanced practices you should use with moderation.