Heck, you can type styles in just about any plain text editor to write CSS, even if that’s not what it says it was designed to do. If you’re on Windows, the default Notepad app is the equivalent.
Just make sure it’s in “Plain Text” mode. If you’re on Mac, then you can fire up TextEdit to start writing CSS.
Not “rich text” documents or Word documents, but plain ol’ text. Creating a CSS file can be done in any text editor. You have the power to create these files on your own. The sheet is such a special thing that it’s been given its own file extension. The combination of those and the processes of figuring out what styles take precedence to style what elements is called the cascade (That first “C” in CSS). There can be multiple sheets all continuing multiple styles all associated with one HTML document. If we were to illustrate this, the relationship between the three sort of forms a cascade: The sheet holds the styles. Like a sheet of paper that we write on, the “sheet” of CSS is the digital file where styles are coded. Then there’s the sheet that contains that code. The cascade describes how styles interact with one another. So let’s give that lonely second “S” a little bit of the spotlight and understand what we mean when we say CSS is a style sheet. While most of the discussion about CSS on the web (or even here on CSS-Tricks) is centered around writing styles and how the cascade affects them, what we don’t talk a whole lot about is the sheet part of the language. CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets.
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