CSS Basic Question

Hi,
I am new to this whole CSS thing....so please excuse me if my question
sounds stupid.

Question:

Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
if you have just the .css files and no .html files.

I need to look at a particular design of a site..... unfortunately the
html files cannot be found.... but I have all the .css files.

Would appreciate your advice.

Thank you in advance.
Ethan

Re: CSS Basic Question

In article
<1189904136.838882.279430@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
ethanjones88@gmail.com wrote:

> Question:
>
> Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
> if you have just the .css files and no .html files.

Can you have a smile without a face? Can the effect of a gene for
making hair red be seen in an organism that lacks the genes for
making hair?

CSS sheets are instructions for styling things. They are like
giant conditional statements, if there is a paragraph

, then
indent it thus, font it thus and so on. If there is no

, then
the status of the consequent does not arise.

To see the effects of a css instruction you need the source of a
webpage, an .html (or .htm or .php .. but lets keep it simple) is
needed. If you have none on your computer, you can make some or
you can copy some from the internet. You can also put in
stylesheets for your browser to follow on other peoples webpages,
to over-ride the instructions that the author recommends.

--
dorayme

Re: CSS Basic Question

ethanjones88@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
> if you have just the .css files and no .html files.

No

> I need to look at a particular design of a site..... unfortunately the
> html files cannot be found.... but I have all the .css files.

The CSS merely styles the HTML and does nothing on its own.

--
Berg

Re: CSS Basic Question

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ethanjones88@gmail.com writing in
news:1189904136.838882.279430@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

> Hi,
> I am new to this whole CSS thing....so please excuse me if my question
> sounds stupid.
>
> Question:
>
> Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
> if you have just the .css files and no .html files.
>
> I need to look at a particular design of a site..... unfortunately the
> html files cannot be found.... but I have all the .css files.
>
> Would appreciate your advice.
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Ethan
>

As others have so, no, but, a program can give you something to work
with, especially colors and such. I use TopStyle from Bradsoft
.

--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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Re: CSS Basic Question

Scripsit dorayme:

>> Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
>> if you have just the .css files and no .html files.
>
> Can you have a smile without a face?

I remember having read a book where a cat's smile appears without a cat.

> CSS sheets are instructions for styling things. They are like
> giant conditional statements, if there is a paragraph

, then
> indent it thus, font it thus and so on. If there is no

, then
> the status of the consequent does not arise.

Yes, but if you just have a style sheet, you could use a _generic_ HTML
document to see how it gets formatted, such as
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/testel.html

It won't tell you everything, since it won't e.g. reveal how a

element
gets rendered when it appears inside

Re: CSS Basic Question

On Sep 16, 2:26 am, "Jukka K. Korpela" wrote:
> Scripsit dorayme:
>
> >> Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
> >> if you have just the .css files and no .html files.
>
> > Can you have a smile without a face?
>
> I remember having read a book where a cat's smile appears without a cat.
>
> > CSS sheets are instructions for styling things. They are like
> > giant conditional statements, if there is a paragraph

, then
> > indent it thus, font it thus and so on. If there is no

, then
> > the status of the consequent does not arise.
>
> Yes, but if you just have a style sheet, you could use a _generic_ HTML
> document to see how it gets formatted, such ashttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/testel.html
>
> It won't tell you everything, since it won't e.g. reveal how a

element
> gets rendered when it appears inside

Re: CSS Basic Question

On Sep 16, 2:26 am, "Jukka K. Korpela" wrote:
> Scripsit dorayme:
>
> >> Is it possible to see how a front-end (the web-page) would look like,
> >> if you have just the .css files and no .html files.
>
> > Can you have a smile without a face?
>
> I remember having read a book where a cat's smile appears without a cat.
>
> > CSS sheets are instructions for styling things. They are like
> > giant conditional statements, if there is a paragraph

, then
> > indent it thus, font it thus and so on. If there is no

, then
> > the status of the consequent does not arise.
>
> Yes, but if you just have a style sheet, you could use a _generic_ HTML
> document to see how it gets formatted, such ashttp://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/testel.html
>
> It won't tell you everything, since it won't e.g. reveal how a

element
> gets rendered when it appears inside