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The basics
Separating content & presentation
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Each of these windows shows EXACTLY the same HTML file. The changes made to the CSS file produced three very different presentations of that basic content.
This is particularly useful for changing the presentational aspects of a site or group of pages. You typically only need to edit a single CSS file, rather than editing all the code of each HTML file.
This can also be beneficial for localization, since typographic approaches, colors, etc, may need to be changed for different locales. Making such changes in the CSS is much easier than adapting the HTML.
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