1. Short for
Cascading Style Sheet,
CSS is a specification first completed in 1996 by
W3C that enables a web developer to create a look and feel for his or her page. For example, CSS may define how each of the pages look by defining the fonts used, colors, table borders, etc within a .css file. The CSS file could then be loaded onto any web page and if the developer ever wanted to change the look or feel of their pages could change the CSS file instead of editing each page. Below is a basic example of CSS code that could be stored in a .css file, in this example the CSS code is defining the fonts to be used in the page, the color of the links, color of the visited links, and color of the links when the mouse is over the link.
body {
font: normal 100% "trebuchet ms", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
a {
color: #000000;
}
A:visited {
color: #005177;
}
a:hover {
color: #005177;
}
The above CSS code can be inserted into the <HEAD></HEAD> section of the HTML on a page using the below code or can be stored in a separate CSS file and called with <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="URL or path to css file here">
<style type "text/css">
<!--
above code inserted here-->
</style>
2. Short for Content Scramble System, CSS is a protection scheme used to help protect copyrighted material store don DVD's from being copied.