CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a styling language that defines the appearance of a document written in a markup language. It is primarily used to style HTML documents, CSS enables developers to divide a document's display from its structure and content, allowing them to maintain and update a website's design.
CSS has a multitude of features that help developers to manage the layout of a document written in a markup language such as color, font, etc... CSS's main aspects include the following:
- Selectors allow you to apply styles to specific HTML elements.
- Properties permit you to alter the overall look of elements like color, font, and layout.
- Values: Specifies the values of the properties.
- Box model: Designates how components on a page are organized and interact with one another.
- Pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements: Add styles to components based on their state or placement in the document.
- Media queries: Allow you to customize different styles based on the screen size as well as devices.
CSS also has several different layout and positioning techniques, like flexbox, grid, and positioning, that can be utilized to handle custom and responsive designs.
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