Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language. A style sheet is a collection of rules that tells a web browser how to display a document written in HTML or XML.
CSS is used to style all HTML tags, including the document’s body, headings, paragraphs, and other pieces of text. CSS can also be used to style the display of table elements, grid elements, and images.
Squarespace is a popular website builder that allows users to create and edit pages without having to know HTML or CSS. However, if you want more control over the appearance of your Squarespace site, you can use CSS to customize your site’s design.
In order to add CSS to your Squarespace site, you’ll need to use the Custom CSS Editor. The Custom CSS Editor can be found in the Design tab of your site’s Settings.
Once you’re in the Custom CSS Editor, you’ll be able to add your own CSS rules. Be sure to click the Save button when you’re finished adding CSS code.
It’s important to note that not all Squarespace templates support custom CSS. If you’re using a template that doesn’t support custom CSS, you won’t be able to use the Custom CSS Editor.
If you’re not sure whether your template supports custom CSS, you can check out this list of supported templates.
Now that we’ve gone over how to add CSS to your Squarespace site, let’s take a look at how to style text using CSS.
Styling Text withCSS
One of the most common uses for CSS is styling text. You can use CSS to control the color, font-size, font-family, line-height, and letter-spacing of text on your website.
To start styling text with CSS, you’ll need to select an element on your page using a selector. For our examples, we’ll be using the <p> tag as our selector. Once you’ve selected an element, you can start adding CSS properties to it.
/* This is a comment */
p { /* This is a selector */
color: red; /* This is a property */
font-size: 24px; /* This is another property */
}
In the example above, we’ve used two properties – color and font-size – to style our <p> tag. The color property is used to set the color of our text, and the font-size property is used to set the size of our text. As you can see from our example, we’ve set our text color to red and our font size to 24px.
You can also use multiple selectors in one rule if you want to style more than one element at a time:
/* This is a comment */
p { /* Paragraphs will be styled like this */ }
h1 { /* Headings will be styled like this */ }
In addition to using HTML tags as selectors ,you can also use class and ID selectors .Class selectors are used to style multiple elements with the same class attribute, while ID selectors are used to style unique elements with an id attribute .
To learn more about selectors, check out our beginner’s guide to CSS.
Conclusion: How Do I Code Style Sheets in Squarespace?
In order to add customizations to your Squarespace site beyond what the platform offers natively, you’ll need to use the Custom CSS editor. With the Custom CSS editor, you can add your own stylesheets to control the look of various elements on your pages. However, not all templates support custom CSS, so check the list of supported templates before proceeding.
