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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Write a CSS Selector and Property

Peter DeLuca
Peter DeLuca
3,606 Points
Posted by Peter DeLuca
Peter DeLuca
3,606 Points

Beginning HTML and CSS

Why would the exercise have you put the style tag inside the body? Nobody would ever do this, even if they did want to add css styling to the h1 they would put it above the body.

2 Answers

Phuc Tran
Phuc Tran
6,542 Points
Phuc Tran
Phuc Tran
6,542 Points

It's not exactly a mistake, but, yes it usually is in the <head> tag. Syntactically, it can be any where inside the html document. However, later on you can see that the order of the tags, even for scripts and stylesheets do affect how the document is rendered. For a simple a example, if there are two same styles with the same level of detail, important, the one below is valid.

Jose Farrugia
Jose Farrugia
7,704 Points
Jose Farrugia
Jose Farrugia
7,704 Points

That's why they call it Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can either place an inline style as an attribute to an element or you can have a styles in the <head> or you can have them an external file. The latter is the norm nowadays.