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What is a Style Sheet?

A style sheet can when used effectively, help to keep the look of a site constant without the need of setting the text properties for each page. There are two types of style sheet, external and internal, although the language used in these style sheets can vary. This site uses an external style sheet that defines the font and the colour of each heading type and the main text. Although I will not cover the details of the code and the syntax you should use in your style sheet, I will tell you a bit about how you may wish to use them.

Internal or External Style Sheets?

Well again that depends on what sort of effect you want on your site. If you want to create an overall look for the site (like this one for example), then it will be best to use external style sheets. External style sheets allow greater flexibility and also save time on such sites, because if there is an element of the style you don't like or want to change you only have to change the style sheet and it will transform the rest of your site.

If however you wish each page to be different from the next then internal style sheets would be your answer because you don't want other pages to be affected by the style set in that sheet.

Internal and external style sheets can be used on the same page if you wish, so that you can make a page that looks similar to the other pages, but it maybe uses a different font for example. What you must remember is this, if say the font has been set to different styles in both the internal and the external style sheets, then the font that has been set by the internal style sheet will override that set by the external sheet. The latest "loaded" style sheet is the one that will override all attributes used in the sheet that have been set by other sheets.