--- title: Astro Crash Course #4 - Styles | daily.dev description: A beginner tutorial on adding styles to an Astro project. Covers multiple approaches including inline style tags, external stylesheets, and Tailwind, then... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-crash-course-4---styles-2vh1wvylg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Astro Crash Course #4 - Styles | daily.dev og:description: A beginner tutorial on adding styles to an Astro project. Covers multiple approaches including inline style tags, external stylesheets, and Tailwind, then... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/astro-crash-course-4---styles-2vh1wvylg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2Vh1WVyLG.png og:image:alt: Astro Crash Course #4 - Styles og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Astro Crash Course #4 - Styles **[Net Ninja](https://daily.dev/sources/netninja)** · 8 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner tutorial on adding styles to an Astro project. Covers multiple approaches including inline style tags, external stylesheets, and Tailwind, then focuses on component-scoped styles. Explains how Astro scopes styles by default using data attributes, how to override this with the `is:global` directive for site-wide styles, and how to mix scoped and global styles within a layout component. Ends with a practical example applying both global and page-specific styles across a multi-page site. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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