What one sees on a Web page when one uses garden-variety HTML tags like, and, pales in comparison to the text and styling on display in, say, a print magazine. If Web designers had only HTML to make their sites look great, the Web would forever be the ugly duckling of the media world. HTML doesn't hold a candle to the typographic and layout control one gets when creating a document in even the most basic word processing program. Fortunately for the designers, one can change the ho-hum appearance of HTML using a technology called Cascading Style Sheets. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are ways of making HTML look beautiful.
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