No, it has nothing to do with the cascade of water falling down a hill! Cascading style sheet (CSS) is a revolution in the world of Website design. If you are thinking, of whether they will work or not, I can only assure you that they are indeed great.

Cascading style sheet can actually do wonders and make your website an elegant piece of art. A little bit of in-depth and non-technical explanation will probably help you. Cascading style sheet, which is popularly known as CSS (used henceforth), has some easy-to-use facilities. No doubt, the effects of CSS are implementable in the website design by using HTML. A question that haunts is, If HTML can do what CSS is capable of, why will someone use CSS? My apologies, HTML is a script that is used to design websites. Let us have a look into the advantages of CSS in website design.

While designing a website, you will come across two things. A part with which you can format and a functional part. In basic HTML, the most of the codes used are formatting codes and if you want to make changes in one code, you need to search for all the similar codes and make the changes. This however, is not the case in CSS. In CSS all you need to do is to make the changes only once in the style sheet. Anytime you put in a command or a code, it will pick up the same style! Incredible, is it not?

CSS in will allow you to insert the formatting code in any location of your document. Alternately, if you are not willing to do so, you can use a separate style sheet containing the formatting code and then link it to the main document using a link tag. For example, if you have a different style sheet (with formatting codes) by the name X, you can link it to the main document by using the following code:

A question follows: “How is it going to help? It helps when you want to put a uniform style to all the documents across your website!

Creating tables or layers in the website is now easier with the help of CSS. Cascading style sheet enables you to create layers and position them in a way so that the website is capable of working with any CSS compatible browser. The magic of CSS are many but at the same time if anyone asks a question, is CSS bad in anyway? Then, he/she cannot be blamed! Older versions of many browsers have many issues with CSS compatibility. Designing websites with CSS can at times cause trouble. If the visitor is using a browser, which does not support CSS then, what is the use of this magic tool? However, with the number of users with non-CSS compatible browsers are decreasing with pace and CSS continues to be the wonder-kid of technical advancement.