After doing the readings regarding Cascading Style Sheets, I realized that I actually answered my question from last weeks post. Now I realize that HTML is for text and CSS is for design in a web page.
According the readings, CSS contains a selector and a declaration. The selector tells the browser what elements are being affected, and the declaration tells the browser what is being done to the selector.
Within a declaration there is a property and a value. The property can tell the browser exactly what is happening to the selector such as making it a certain color. The value comes after the property and tells the browser the specific color or font, etc.
After doing the readings, I feel like I can more effectively sue the data management systems I work with in the archives. Currently, I am using Archivists Toolkit to process collections and a lot of the fields come from EAD, HTML, and CSS fields. For example, now I better understand what the field for "attributes" means in terms of making a title of a play italicized (which is something I didn't know before).
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