CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used to style and lay out web pages. It allows separation of document content from document presentation and formatting. The document discusses various CSS properties like color, font, text, margins, links, and lists that control the look and formatting of HTML elements. It also describes how to style tables and their borders, alignment, padding and other properties. External, internal, and inline styling methods are covered along with the cascade order of multiple style sheets.