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CSS is short for Cascading StyleSheets. They are useful for defining the layout of a website, and for altering the appearance of Gecko-based products like Firefox. You can write CSS in a text-based editor like Notepad and save them with a .css extension.
'''Cascading Style Sheets''' ('''CSS''') is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including various XML languages like XHTML or SVG). In [[Gecko]]-based products like the [[Mozilla Suite]], [[Firefox]] or [[Thunderbird]] it is also used for styling application's user interface. For example, [[Dev : Themes|themes]] make heavy use of CSS to skin the application.


== Useful Extensions ==
CSS is a [http://w3.org/Style/CSS/#specs W3C specification].
*[http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60&vid=645 WebDeveloper]
 
*[http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=21 Chromedit]
==See also==
* [http://w3.org/Style/CSS/ W3C CSS page]
* [[Wikipedia:Cascading Style Sheets]]
* [[Development resources#CSS|The list of development resources for CSS]].
 
 
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including various XML languages like XHTML or SVG). In Gecko-based products like the Mozilla Suite, Firefox or Thunderbird it is also used for styling application's user interface. For example, themes make heavy use of CSS to skin the application.

CSS is a W3C specification.

See also