CSS Crash Course 2026 (Everything You Need to Know to Get Started)

Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned developer who needs a quick summary this CSS tutorial will show you everything you need to know to get started with CSS in 2026.

What is CSS and Why it matters?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and it is used for styling websites. In the previous HTML Crash Course, we said that HTML is used for the material and structure, CSS is for Styling those elements, and Javascript is used to make the website interactive such as user preferences and liking some posts. Looking at the websites overall, the modern look of the websites come from CSS.

How to connect CSS to Html?

Css allows us to style the HTML elements, for that we need a way to connect our CSS to HTML. There 3 ways we can do this. And the best practice is to use the third method.

Inline CSS

The first way is to write css on the same line as our HTML element. Let’s create a simple HTML page to see that with an example. Lets go to desktop, create a folder called CSS-tutorial and open it in VSCODE. One indide let’s click on create a new file. Call it index.html and get the default boilerplate code with exclamation mark + enter.