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External Style Sheet
In case of external stylesheet, the CSS styles are written in a separate file which is saved with .css
extension. You need to include a reference to the external style sheet file within the <LINK> element
inside the <HEAD> element. Syntax to include the reference of the external stylesheet is:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="name of style sheet file">
</head>
Where, HREF attribute contains the path of the stylesheet. For example, if you have saved the file with
the styles as style.css, then the code will be:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
If the file is saved in another location, you must provide the complete drive path of the stylesheet. Let
us create a web page using the external style sheet. The first step is to create a stylesheet file. Open
Notepad and type the following code:
body{background-color:green; color:white;}
Now, save the file with the name style.css at the same location as the HTML file. Again, open a new
notepad window and type the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Using External Stylesheet</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
Text with white colour and background colour is green
</body>
</html>
When you view the preceding web page in browser, you will get the following output:
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