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Classes in Cascading Style Sheets

Classes within internal or external style sheets

A Class is a style that defines properties for some or all elements in a document. Classes are defined in external style sheets or within the header of internal style sheets. Then, the class attribute can be used to assign the special class to one or more elements on your web page. Here is an example from an internal style sheet, with a regular paragraph and a bigger paragraph rule.

  <!--
      p { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black }
      p.bigger { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger }
  -->

To use the p.bigger class, you would include it within a paragraph tag, such as:

<p>This is a normal paragraph.</p>
<p class="bigger">This paragraph would be bigger!</p>

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