What is CSS? Part 2

Why Use CSS?



CSS allows you to apply specific styles to specific HTML elements.

The main benefit of CSS is that it allows you to separate style from content. 

Using just HTML, all the styles and formatting are in the same place, which becomes rather difficult to maintain as the page grows.
All formatting can (and should) be removed from the HTML document and stored in a separate CSS file.

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