Designers Learn Code: Internal vs External CSS

Designers Learn Code: Internal vs External CSS

When adding CSS to our HTML documents we can take two approaches. One way is to use "internal CSS" which is where the CSS rules are embedded directly into our HTML page. In this method, we include our CSS rules directly in the head of the HTML page and enclose all of our CSS rules in a style element. The second, and preferred way, is to use "external CSS" which is where we link our HTML page to an external stylesheet via a link element. The link element is an empty element and we use certain attributes with it: the href attribute to specify the file path to the CSS file and the rel attribute which tells the browser the relationship between the linked file and the HTML document. In this case, we are linking a "stylesheet." We used to also specify the type attribute to let the browser know we are linking a CSS file: type="text/css"; however, with the most recent specifications, it has been decided you no longer need to use this attribute. External CSS is preferred because the goal is to separate content from appearance. Also, we are able to link multiple CSS stylesheets to our HTML page via separate link elements. Internal CSS is appropriate when we have a simple single page website. With more pages, an external CSS stylesheet can control the look of all the HTML webpages in a site. When we want to make a style change, we would only have to adjust the stylesheet, rather than make changes to multiple pages.

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