One of the reasons CSS is so popular is the versatility it gives to HTML tags. Although you cannot "turn off" the tag's built-in controls, you can add more controls to the HTML tags to extend their usefulness. You do this by adding new CSS definitions to the tag selector. Let's use the HTML <p> tag for our example and we will add a background color, a font face, font size and a text color control to the <p> tag. This will cause everything between any opening and closing <p> tags to be controlled by our new definitions throughout the web page.
In our example, the CSS rule begins with the HTML selector (p) which is followed by the CSS declaration block containing all the property-value definitions we wish to add. As usual, each definition begins with the property, followed by a colon, the value and ending with a semicolon. The entire block is placed within curly brackets. There are a few things to remember when writing your own CSS rules for HTML tags.
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