cascading style sheet
noun [ C ] uk/kæsˌkeɪ.dɪŋ ˈstaɪl ˌʃiːt/ us/kæsˌkeɪ.dɪŋ ˈstaɪl ˌʃiːt/ (abbreviation CSS)
层叠样式表，级联样式表
a piece of computer software that allows you to describe and control how a web page or a series of web pages should appear to the user
Cascading style sheets are text files attached to HTML pages that control the design and appearance of the page. 级联样式表是附加在HTML页面上的文本文件，可以控制页面的设计和外观。
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- Cascading style sheets give you the potential to not only add outstanding effects to your text, but to also set a content standard for text across an entire website.
- You can use cascading style sheets, or CSS, to format each section and its contents.
- A cascading style sheet is a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents, e.g. fonts, colours, spacing, and text direction.
- These standards spell out exactly how the browsers are supposed to handle complicated layout instructions like cascading style sheets.