Introduction

This particular lesson has been written with a beginner in mind. If you’re an intermediate CSS developer, feel free to skip this. There are more useful tips in later lessons.

What is CSS?

I am not a very big fan of boring, technical definitions. So, below is my definition.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is the style language for the web.

Every beautiful thing you see on the web is largely powered by CSS. That’s the very simple way to put it.

However, CSS is not only used for the web. It may also be used to style any other documents written in a markup language.

HTML is a markup language, remember ?

This means you can style HTML (and other markup languages) with CSS.

Let’s take a look at what that means, in plain English.