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Introduction to cascading style sheets (CSS)

External style sheet applied to every page of site

A linked style sheet controls the style of every page to which it is linked and serves as a set of default style rules.

An external style sheet is called a linked style sheet in FrontPage. By linking to an external style sheet from each page in your Web site, you can manage the look and feel of the entire site by modifying just one document.

For example, if all of the H1 elements in your Web site are blue, and you decide you want them to be red, you simply open your linked style sheet, change the H1 color value to red, and the changes will apply throughout every page to which you have linked the style sheet.

The link from a Web page to a style sheet is included in the document header (between the <head> and </head> tags using the <link> tag:

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

Your style sheet would include the actual style definitions, such as: h1 {color: red; }

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