Confused abut style sheets

by "Beauford.2002" <beauford.2002(at)rogers.com>

Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:27:04 -0500
To:	"HWG Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
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 I have been reading some documents on style sheets, but am confused at how
they can help. I understand their purpose, but in order to use them, it
would mean that each page on your site would have to be the same (i.e. font
size, color, etc). I have a website that has 15 pages, but the body of each
page may differ slightly (a different color, different spacing, etc.) - so
 using a style sheet would not help. The problem I have is this. My site
mostly uses lists and stats from a data base, so I have many tables to
format this data - in most cases the tables are exactly the same - except
for a few minor differences (i.e. headings). Is there a way with style
sheets that you can use them for this purpose and just override those
differences.....?

 Just a note. I have a header file that I include at the top of each page as
this part doesn't change. This includes everything from the opening <HTML>
to <BODY ******> and the main table which lays out the sites borders etc.. I
also have a footer file that includes a bit of info and the closing </BODY>
</HTML>. The middle parts of each page are different. So any style sheets
would have to go in the main header file and would apply to all pages.

 TIA

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