style sheets

[kill_bill_gates]

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?

[visualAd]

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

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

  Inside a style attribute:
  

  <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.

[kill_bill_gates]

thanks

[mendhak]

www.w3schools.com/css/

[kill_bill_gates]

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

[kill_bill_gates]

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

[mendhak]

In the CSS file:

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

[kill_bill_gates]

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

[Brandoe85]

Yes, a button is an input.

[mendhak]

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.