HTML Styles
The style attribute lets you change how a single element looks, right from its start tag.
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You style an element by writing CSS property and value pairs inside the style attribute, separated by semicolons. This is called inline styling.
The style Attribute
Inline style
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<p style="color:blue; font-size:18px;">A blue paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>Common Properties
Background Color
Coloring a whole element
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<div style="background-color:#9ce56d;">A green box</div>
</body>
</html>Text Alignment
Centering text
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1 style="text-align:center;">Centered heading</h1>
</body>
</html>Note: Inline styles are handy for a quick change, but once a page grows a separate stylesheet keeps things tidy and reusable.
Exercise: HTML Styles
How do you apply an inline style directly to a single HTML element?
