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CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CSS is a simple way of managing style (e.g. fonts, colours and spacing) in Web documents. It is based on the principle that style should be separated from content. For Website users employing non-graphical browsers (e.g. Lynx), content in webpages using CSS remains accessible whilst webpages combining style and content often present problems. Websites styled using CSS tend to be much faster too; this is because broswers need not download the same information many times over. CSS also provides efficiencies to website designers: stylistic changes can be applied accross multiple webpages through one CSS stylesheet. CSS also makes it simpler to ensure that webpages look similar when viewed in different browsers.
