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Style text with CSS

Style text with CSS

- [Instructor] The original design of HTML allowed for some very simple formatting, as you can see on this, which is the first website ever published. When I control click the title and choose inspect, we can see that the H1 tag makes it big. If I scroll down and poke around a bit, I can also see DD make things indented and so forth. But designers wanted more control over page layout, which HTML was never intended to do. So a new solution emerged in the late 90s called cascading style sheets or CSS. Like HTML and JavaScript, CSS is a client side technology. That means it's interpreted by the web browser so it will display correctly regardless of where the document comes from. CSS is a completely separate language from HTML, but they can be mixed together in three different ways. The exercise file for this video shows all three methods. I'll open the inspect elements panel in Chrome by going to view, developer, and inspect…

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