Hi,

I am new to web development, so please don't mind my ignorence.

I am currently going through the videos and tutorials and specifically I covered certain aspects of CSS(Cascding Style Sheet) and Master pages. Even after extensive and repeated reading I tend to get the feeling that both CSS and Master pages are intended to solve the same problem.  But not sure whether my above assumption is correct and I guess there would be significant difference between the two.

I would appreciate if some one could elaborate on the differences between CSS and Master page or point to any pre-existing link which elaborates this aspect. If it is distinctly different what is the right scenario to apply CSS & Master page. Or can we combine both in a single web site.

Any response is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Bala.

Master Pages are more pfor the physical layout of you HTML, more like a template for your pages.

So you would but your table strucutre, headers, and objects in the master page. Then yo page is associated to a master page, and it will take on that wrapper HTML.

CSS - in 2.0 is meant to go inside a theme, app_themes, and themes are more like "clothing" for your app. CSS lets you do things like colors, fonts, positioning, and much more, but it does not actually have an HTML elements in it. It is a definition of style for the HTML elements in yoru page.

You would use CSS to "dress" the html in your master page.

So in yo master you might have something like

<asp:label runat="server" cssclass="myclass" .....

and in your css

.myclass{ color:red; font-size:15px;}

what will happen is when the page renders, it will include the label from the master page, and whatever text in that label, will be assigned the myclass css class which will cause the browser to paint that label red and font size of 15 pixels.

Web-NewBee wrote:

I am currently going through the videos and tutorials and specifically I covered certain aspects of CSS(Cascding Style Sheet) and Master pages. Even after extensive and repeated reading I tend to get the feeling that both CSS and Master pages are intended to solve the same problem.  But not sure whether my above assumption is correct and I guess there would be significant difference between the two

I'd be curious as to an exact example that leads you to believe that... they are as different as dogs and cats....

MasterPages are a way to include common items across your application, whether it be controls (like a menu) or placeholders for content.. at the end of the page cycle, the controls from the MasterPage and the Content page are merged together to form one single HTML entity that gets sent to your client

CSS does none of that....

Master pages standarizes your HTML for your site.

CSS standarizes your look for your site.

CSS is not HTML, it is sued by the browser, to style the HTML that was renderd.

Master pages directly render HTML to the browser.

Master Pages Contain HTML which uses CSS.

CSS is a tool to be used by HTML which is generated by a amster page.

I am not sure how else to clarify.