curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/top-learn-css-foundations/63ee35450d8d4841c3a70920.md
Internal CSS (or embedded CSS) involves adding the CSS within the HTML file itself instead of creating a completely separate file. With the internal method, you place all the rules inside of a pair of opening and closing <style> tags, which are then placed inside of the opening and closing <head> tags of your HTML file. Since the styles are being placed directly inside of the <head> tags, you no longer need a <link> element that the external method requires.
Besides these differences, the syntax is exactly the same as the external method (selector, curly braces, declarations):
<head>
<style>
div {
color: white;
background-color: black;
}
p {
color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>...</body>
This method can be useful for adding unique styles to a single page of a website, but it doesn’t keep things separate like the external method, and depending on how many rules and declarations there are it can cause the HTML file to get pretty big.
Which of the following is a difference between internal and external CSS methods?
The external method places CSS rules in a separate file, while the internal method places CSS rules within the HTML file itself.
The internal method keeps CSS separate from HTML, while the external method embeds CSS directly in HTML.
The internal method uses <link> element to link CSS to HTML, while the external method embeds CSS directly in HTML.
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