CSS is a style sheet language used to beautify HTML pages. However, before we can apply CSS to a web page, we need to tell the web page where to find the corresponding style sheet. Let’s discuss where CSS should be most appropriately placed.
The best way is to put the CSS code in a separate file. There are many benefits to doing this, including better maintainability, faster page loads, and better scalability. By separating CSS files from HTML files, we can make CSS processing faster and ensure that these stylesheets can be used on a number of different web pages without having to spend a lot of time rewriting stylesheet code.
It is a good practice to place CSS inside the
element. When a browser encounters an HTML document, it will first parse the head portion of the document, which includes elements such as andIt is also a common practice to place CSS files at the end of the
Another benefit of placing the CSS file outside the HTML file is that it can be shared with other web pages. We can use link tags to link external CSS files into HTML documents, allowing HTML pages to reuse the same stylesheet.