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of conflicts, the most specific specification is used, e.g. p.toocool style will be

used in a paragraph with the toocool attribute. Likewise, the bland style will

be used in a bland paragraph. Finally, note that the style names can be any

name you wish to create. The names must begin with a letter and contain only

letters, digits, and dashes ( ).

The style definitions can go into the head element of the html tag for exam 

ple, the following code defines a  toocool  class and uses it for a heading and a

sentence:

Cool page

This is neat and

this is too cool!

 This is a normal paragraph with CSS style

This uses the special toocool paragraph

style
 and

This is a bland paragraph

The style file has the form:

NAME {STYLE SPEC}

NAME {STYLE SPEC}

NAME {STYLE SPEC}

where the STYLE SPEC is a specification of the style as we have seen for inline

CSS.

The  media  specification in the style tag allows you to specify different

styles for different media. Current media include  screen  for usual webpage

browsing,  print  for printing, and  aural  for screen readers.

You can also store the CSS in a separate file and link it to the current page

using a  link  tag in the head: