Using CSS with XHTML

We’re sure CSS has a bright future in the home design category, but let’s get back to XHTML. XHTML doesn’t have rooms, but it does have elements and those elements are going to be the locations that we’re styling. Want to paint the walls of your <p> elements red? No problem; only paragraphs don’t have walls, so you’re going to have to settle for the paragraph’s background-color property instead. Here’s how you do that:

You could also write the rule like this:

p { background-color: red; }

Here, all we’ve done is remove the linebreaks. Like XHTML, you can format your CSS pretty much as you like. For longer rules you’ll usually want to add some linebreaks and indenting to make the CSS more readable (for you).