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What's the difference between inline styles and internal styles?


Asked by Blaze Waller on Dec 12, 2021 FAQ



Unlike internal and external stylesheets, inline styles don’t contain curly braces or line breaks. That is, write your CSS all on the same line when using inline styles. Also, keep in mind that inline styles only affect the specific element that you add the style attribute with CSS property-value pairs to.
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For example, with external and internal style sheets, you can style the visited, hover, active, and link color of an anchor tag. But with an inline style all you can style is the link itself, because that’s what the style attribute is attached to. Since the Internal CSS have more preference over Inline CSS.
In addition, External style sheet is the one where you have a specific css file (.css extension) and have your html Giles refer to it through link tag. Internal styling is one where you define all your styling in the same html file within <style> tag. Inline styling is where you define styling to html elements within its ‘style’ attribute.
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A typical example of an Inline Style is as given in the example below: When you preview the HTML document you applied the above style to on a browser, you will notice that it gives the web page a blue background color defined by the value given to the CSS “background-color” property, instead of the default white background color.
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Similar to an inline style rule, embedded styles allow you to override the rules of an external style sheet. The difference is that with an embedded rule, you don't have to create a rule with each use of an HTML element. An H1 heading given the color red in an embedded style rule will render...