Stylesheet

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Defines stylesheet purpose, reuse, and simple rules but stops short of deeper CSS mechanics.

As explained in A Pythonic Adventure: From Python basics to a working web app

A style sheet is a plain-text resource containing rules that describe the visual presentation of document elements.

A stylesheet is a plain-text file containing rules that describe how HTML elements look. Separating styles from HTML lets one change update every matching element in one place. section 13.0

A stylesheet can specify:

Colors, font sizes, backgrounds, and fonts for elements such as h1 and h2 headers. section 13.0
Several combined stylesheets, allowing existing styles to be reused and selectively changed. section 13.0

Coffee shop styling

A coffee shop stylesheet assigns Playfair Display to headings, gives the page a beige background, and changes text-input and menu colors.

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Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth EditionA stylesheet is a file containing presentation rules that control the visual rendering of documents such as HTML.

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CSSincludes · CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a stylesheet language for specifying the presentation and layout of structured documents and user interfaces.
author styleincludes · An author style is a CSS presentation rule supplied by the document or application author rather than by the user agent or user preferences.
user-agent styleincludes · A user-agent style is a default set of presentation rules supplied by a browser for rendering document elements when author styles do not override them.
wwwroot folderpart of · The wwwroot folder is the conventional ASP.NET Core web-root directory from which static web content is served.

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