Formatting HTML and CSS for beginners

Well, I see it’s been a long time since I last posted here. A lot of interesting things have happened in recent years! But let’s get back to the topic at hand: you want to know how to properly format your HTML and CSS, and this is how you’ll do it.

Some benefits of styling with CSS

Many of these benefits also translate to HTML, when you organize your markup using HTML5 elements.

• By keeping style separate from structure, CSS makes for cleaner, more maintainable code. This separation improves the accessibility of content and makes style changes on a website much more manageable.

• CSS provides comprehensive control over presentation, from fonts to layout, allowing developers to create responsive designs that adapt across devices.

• External CSS files can be cached, improving load times for subsequent page views.

Techniques for applying CSS with your HTML

CSS can be applied in three ways:

1. Inline styling: Using the style attribute directly within HTML elements. Although this method is simple, it is generally discouraged due to its lack of maintainability.

   
 style="color: blue;">This text is blue.

1. Internal styling: Using a tag in the HTML . This method is useful for small projects or unique styling for a single page.

   
   p {
       color: red;
   }
   

    rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">

   p {
       color: green;
   }