Not only that, but style sheets also reduce download time when one file contains all the style information. Style sheets also offer much more flexibility in terms of the presentation effects that they provide. Properties such as color, background, margin, border, and many more can be applied to all elements . Style sheets give the flexibility of applying a style to all paragraphs, or all level-two headings, or all emphasized text. Margins can be suggested without having to put the entire page in a table.
Style sheets represent an enormous step forward for the Web.
With the separation of content and presentation between HTML and style sheets, the Web no longer needs to drift away from the strong ideal of platform independence that provided the medium with its initial push of popularity. Authors can finally influence the presentation of documents without leaving pages unreadable to users. The number of browsers supporting Cascading Style Sheets continues to increase rapidly. Beyond CSS1 Future extensions to CSS1 are aimed at bringing better support for printing Web pages , styles for speech and braille output, positioning , fonts , and device-independent colors. All rights reserved.