Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) – the need of the hour

CSS has been always been on demand for web site design but perhaps has reached the zenith of its popularity in today’s SEO era, where the quality of a website has become a key factor for ranking and visibility.

Any web designer who has got the preliminary knowledge of an editor has been using styles to decorate his page whether it’s a simple word document (.doc) or a .html page created by the MS Front Page. Take the example of MS word where you find a default “Normal” shown in the style box or in case of Front page, it shows as (None).

If you click on these style boxes you will get a variety of styles available for you like Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3 etc. These are the pre-defined styles to be used to decorate your web page or document.

When we talk of style sheets we mean defining a style sheet to suit our exclusive purpose. Like if you want all your headers should be of Arial Bold 16 Blue, you could define the style in your style sheet, which can just be referred to at any point of time in your actual web page. You don’t need to define the font, size, style, and color every time. So you can maintain a consistency in your website and the chance of redundancy is completely eliminated. CSS is based on Class concept, the basic principle of Object Oriented Programming concept (OOPS).