The ability to set the background color on an HTML page has been around almost since the first Web browsers. However, with CSS you can define the background color, not only for the entire page, but also for individual elements using the background- color property. Unlike the color property, though, background colors are applied only to the element, and are not directly inherited by its children. That said, by the very fact they are within the parent, they will be set against that background. To define the background color of an element: 1.

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Here are six simple things you can do to improve the appearance of your Web page when it is printed. Use page breaks before page headers to keep them with their text. Separate content from navigation. Try to keep the main content—the part your audience is interested in reading—in a separate area of the design from the site navigation. You can then use CSS to hide navigation in the printed version with a nav included in the print style sheet. Avoid using transparent colors in graphics. This is especially true if the graphic is on a background color or a graphic other than white.

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Working with Pseudo-classes Many HTML elements have special states or uses associated with them that can be styled independently. One prime example of this is the link tag which has link (its normal state), a visited state (when the visitor has already been to the page represented by the link), hover (when the visitor has their mouse over the link), and active (when the visitor clicks the link). All four of these states can be styled separately.

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Elements can be classified according to the way they’re displayed—inline or block. By default, every tag has a display style that defines how it will fit with the surrounding tags. You can use the display property to define whether an element includes line breaks above and below (block), is included with other elements without hard line breaks (inline), is treated as part of a list (list), or is displayed at all (none). To set an element’s display type:
1. Start your declaration by typing the display property name in the CSS declaration block, followed by a colon (:) display:

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The idea of a standard way to communicate over the Internet was the principle behind the creation of the World Wide Web: You should be able to transmit information to any computer anywhere in the world and display it in the way the author intended. In the beginning, only one form of HTML existed, and everyone on the Web used it. This situation didn’t present any real problem because almost everyone used Mosaic, the first popular graphics-based browser, and Mosaic was the standard. That, as they say, was then. Along came Netscape Navigator and the first HTML extensions were born.

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How to attach your style?1- The One For All method The One For All method includes all your styles in a single master style sheet. With this method, creating well-organized and readable style sheets with a TOC is critical because you may be poring through hundreds or even thousands of lines of code.
Pros—One download is faster than multiple downloads, and the file is then cached for use on other pages. In addition, with all of your code in one place, you don’t have to worry about whether a page has access to the right styles.