Website Design Principles - CSS Flexibility

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow content and formatting to be separated. This has the advantage of making the actual content easier to find and understand when viewing the source HTML, reduces the filesize of the HTML and also makes it easier to make global changes to layout and formatting without having to rewrite the HTML.

Example (without CSS)

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Example (with CSS)

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The CSS specification actually allows more control over formatting than using just HTML, precise positioning without using HTML tables for example (subject to browser compatibility and quirks - see compatibility article).

 

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