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Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

By Gez Lemon, published on 08 Jul 2003
Page 1 of 8
  1. Introduction
  2. Specifying Styles within an HTML Document
  3. External Style Sheets
  4. Priority of Styles
  5. Inheritance of Styles
  6. Syntax of Styles
  7. CSS Units of Measurement
  8. Pseudo Classes

Introduction

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium to help determine the layout of an HTML document. Removing the formatting from the HTML document allows you to quickly apply a style to a whole site, rather than going through each document and changing the tags that represent the style. It also means that the content of the HTML document isn't bloated by extra information about how data is to be presented. The current specification for using style sheets, Cascading Style Sheets, level 2, may be found at the World Wide Web Consortium's site.

Unfortunately, support for Cascading Style sheets vary amongst browsers. To check for compatibility, see Eric A. Meyer's Master Compatibility Chart.

Comments

  1. dc
    30 Jul 2003 at 03:36

    This is a good tutorial as it covers the basics.


    Nevertheless, readers should know that CSS can be taken to the extreme and should know the other side of the story in regards to fully integrated CSS.


    One of the points to always remember in any technology is the K.I.S.S. principle.


    Tables versus fully CSS (i.e. replacing all table tags with div tags)


    http://www.decloak.com/Products/Dreamweaver/NestedTemplates/TablesOrLayers.aspx

  2. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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