How to Tell if a Website Is Built With CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used for formatting the look, feel and style of web pages. CSS templates are used within markup languages, including HTML, XHTML and XML. CSS styles can be embedded in a web page by style tags or referenced from an external CSS style sheet through a link tag. Because of its flexibility, its compatibility across browsers and the control it gives you over HTML and other mark up languages, more and more web authors develop their websites using CSS. If you want to know if a website uses CSS for its formatting you will have to examine the source code of that website.
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Open Internet Explorer and go to the website you want to examine.
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Click "View," and then click "View Source." You are now looking at the source code for that web page.
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CSS references and codes are generally placed at the very top of web pages, usually between the opening and closing "<head>" HTML tags ("<head>" and "</head>" respectively).
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Look for the following CSS style blocks: "<style></style>." CSS codes are embedded in the web page by way of the opening and closing style tags.
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Look for the following CSS style reference link: "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='myexample.css'>." Though it might not look exactly like this example, if you see a reference similar to this one in the source code you're viewing, it indicates that the website is using an external CSS for its formatting.
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