Introduction to CSS

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used to style (set size, colors, etc) HTML elements (links, text, buttons, etc).

A Quick Example

If I have the following element:

<div>Banana</div>

and I want the text to have a yellow background, I can do this:

<div style="background-color: yellow">Banana</div>

The result:

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