{"id":169387,"date":"2025-06-16T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/glossary\/cascading-style-sheets-css"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:24:42","slug":"cascading-style-sheets-css","status":"publish","type":"concepts","link":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/glossary\/cascading-style-sheets-css","title":{"rendered":"Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CSS is a language used to control how a web page looks. It tells your browser how to display HTML elements, such as setting colours, fonts, spacing, and where elements sit on the page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CSS works by applying rules to HTML elements. These rules tell the browser how things should look. For example, you can write a rule that makes all the headings blue or aligns buttons to the right side of a section.<\/p>\n<p>Each rule includes a selector (the HTML element or class you want to target) and one or more properties, like font size, background colour, or layout style. Designers and front-end developers use these rules to ensure everything looks polished and on-brand.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of marketing tech, presentation matters. A clean, visually consistent website or platform helps build trust, keep users engaged, and support conversion goals. CSS plays a big role here: it lets teams tweak the visual design without touching the actual content or breaking anything under the hood.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few handy CSS features marketers and developers love:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Responsive design, which automatically adapts your page layout to fit different screen sizes<\/li>\n<li>Media queries, which apply different styles depending on the user&#8217;s device<\/li>\n<li>Animations and transitions for interactive or engaging visual effects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can write CSS in a few ways: right inside an HTML element (inline), in the head of an HTML page (internal), or in a separate file (external). External CSS files are often preferred as they&#8217;re easier to manage and help pages load faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSS is a language used to control how things look on a web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cat_topic":[],"cat_glossary":[],"class_list":["post-169387","concepts","type-concepts","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/concepts"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/concepts\/169387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_topic?post=169387"},{"taxonomy":"cat_glossary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spotler.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_glossary?post=169387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}