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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

cascading style sheet (CSS)

In HTML documents, cascading style sheets work like a template, allowing web developers to define a style for an HTML element and then apply it to as many web pages as they like. The advantage of this is that when you want to make a change, you simply change the style once in the CSS (rather than on each and every page), and that style is updated automatically wherever it appears within the site.

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web developerglobal changestylestyle sheettemplatecontent management system (CMS)web authoring softwareweb authoring toolHyperText Markup Language (HTML)
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