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An '''external style sheet''' is a [[text file]] containing [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] rules.

External style sheet files usually have the <code>.css</code> file extension.

== Example ==

A typical example:

 <nowiki><head>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sitename.css">
</head></nowiki>

The above example is named "sitename.css", where "sitename" is the name of the website.

It is also common to name external style sheets after their function, for example "holiday.css" for styles which only apply during a holiday season.

== See also ==

* [[Cascading Style Sheets]]

[[Category:Cascading Style Sheets]]
[[Category:Web design]]
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