User Guide - NetObjects Fusion

CSS Basics
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The browser will now read the style definitions and display the contents of
the web pages, based on the formatting options listed in the style sheet.
3. Inline Styles
This method should be used when a style is to be applied to a single occurrence of
an element in the web page. To use inline styles, you use the style attribute within
the tag. The style attribute can contain any CSS property. The example below
shows the syntax to change the color and the left margin of a paragraph:
This paragraph is formatted using
inline styles
Understanding Inheritance in Cascading Style Sheets
In CSS there is an order of precedence that is followed when a CSS style sheet is
applied. Take for example when both an external style sheet is referenced on a Web
page that also includes style definitions internally on the Web page.
As we learned from the Basics of CSS section, the external style sheet will be
applied to any style definitions it finds until it meets an internal style definition of
the same selector. From the example below, you can see that the h2 selector will
apply the style definition from the external style sheet and then apply the internal
style sheet definition when a matching property is found.
External style sheet
h2
{
color: blue;
text-align: left;
font-size: 10pt}
Internal style sheet:
h2
{
text-align: right;