Intro to CSS – I

What are Cascading Style Sheets or CSS?

Lets break it down with definitions from “the free dictionary”

Cascade means (noun) =

1.  A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
2. Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.
3.  A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
4. Electronics A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.
5.  A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect: an enzymatic cascade.

Style may refer to:

• Design, the process of creating something
• Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, e.g., clothing
• Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things
• Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition
• Human physical appearance
• Style (fiction), an aspect of literary composition
• Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed

Sheet means (noun) =

1. A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding.
2. A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.
3.  A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.
4. A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse: a sheet of ice.
5. A moving expanse: a sheet of flames.
6. A newspaper, especially a tabloid.

Cascading Style sheets are not trendy sheets falling off a bed…