The .CSS file format stands for Cascading Style Sheet file. This file is used for providing presentation to a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML. Designers and developers use CSS files to give a consistent look and feel to web pages on their websites.
The World Wide Web Consortium provides for the CSS specification. It uses an English like syntax to define style properties for different elements in a document. A CSS file typically consists of a set of rules, which are made up of selectors and declaration blocks.
| File type | Cascading Style Sheets Format |
| Developer | Lack of information |
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While searching for an answer to the question - How to open the CSS file? - you probably found websites, which offer software that was able to open any file extension. Do not be fooled, there is no one program that will allow you to work with any file extension, including the CSS file. Each program contains a different type of data and you need specialized software to properly work with the CSS file. Here is a list of programs that are designed to work with the CSS file - remember, these applications are able to open at most a few file extensions, they are designed to work with a specific data type.
If after installing the program from a list, you still cannot open a file with the CSS extension, the reason may be that the file is damaged. The solution may be to find a new copy of the CSS file you want to open
In this case, the easiest way is to use the tool built into the operating system for association of the CSS file with applications to support it. Double click on the file you cannot open - the operating system will display a list of programs that are likely to work with your CSS file. Choose one of them, or select the location on a disk where you installed one of the applications from our list. Windows should then open the CSS file using the program installed earlier.
Entries containing links of the CSS file extensions with applications is located in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. If you do not know how to get to the Windows Registry, or how to make changes in it, ask a specialist for help. Lack of knowledge on the subject may cause irreversible changes on your computer.
There may be a situation when a computer virus passes itself off as the CSS file. In this case, such a file will definitely not be opened. Download a good antivirus program and scan the CSS file mentioned. If the antivirus application detects malicious data, it may signify that the CSS file is infected.
| CSV | Comma Separated Value Format |
| CSE | Web Research Document Package |
| CSM | 3ds Max Character Studio Maker Format |
| CSN | Adobe Dreamweaver Snippet Format |
| CSH | Adobe Photoshop Shapes Format |
| CSKIN | CD Art Display Skin Format |
| CSSTORE | Apple Mac OS X Cache |
| CST | Commonspace Document Format |
| CSO | CISO Compressed ISO Format |
| CSMANIFEST | ICQ 6 Settings |
