style sheets

Hi,

I've got some questions about style sheets, but first of all, I want to apologise if it is the wrong category to post this thread, the reason I'm sending it here is because I use PHP,

then, here are the questions

• Are style sheets written in HTML,
• What are they used for,
• Do I have to import a sheet using JavaScript in PHP,
• How do they make the gradient-like background(e.g. in phpBB ),
• Can somebody explain one or some of those with examples and usage places?

• Are style sheets written in HTML?
  They are wiritten in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You can put it in style tags in HTML like:
  
  HTML Code:

  ---

  <style type="text/css">
body {
    color: red;
}

  ---

  Inside a style attribute:
  
  HTML Code:

  ---

  <a style="text-decoration: none" ..

  ---

  Or in a separate file and import the using the <link> tag.
• What are they used for?
  They are used to describe the formatting and positioning of elements in a HTML page and allow you to keep the data, separate from the style definitions.
• Do I have to import a sheet using JavaScript in PHP?
  No

The other question I'm not sure about. I have moved this thread to the right forum, where you are likely to get a better response. ;)

thanks

www.w3schools.com/css/

thanks mendhak.w3schools is always useful( it still doesn't explain how to apply gradient to the tables though :( )

uh and one last question; does anybody have an idea about how black buttons are done in this page

In the CSS file:

Code:

---

input, textarea {
        color: WHITE;
        font-size: 10pt;
        font-family: "Verdana";
        font-weight: normal;
        background-color: #000000;
        border: #888888 1px solid;

---

hey thanks a lot again( really a lot) but that's the textareas, not the buttons. Are they done in the same way?

Yes, a button is an input.

It says

input, textareas

there.

Which means that the style specifications there should apply to input tags (textbox, checkbox, buttons, etc) as well as textareas.