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Not so long ago, font tags (which are evil) provided a web designer’s only means of formatting an HTML document’s text for presentation within web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer™, Opera™ or Mozilla Firefox. The trouble with font tags was that they were not only notoriously unreliable for presenting any given piece of information in the way initially intended by its author; they also bloated file sizes to almost insupportable proportions. In fact, even the text size setting of a browser could make a page’s content overlap or

An old saying goes: “There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types and those who don’t.” I am definitely in the former group. For example, I might say there are two types of people: those who read Web pages and those who create them. Of course, some of us do both, but the vast majority of the Web-using public doesn’t know or care about the messy underpinnings of HTML, Web servers, browser compatibility issues, and all the rest. They care about just one thing: the information on the page. If a page loads too slowly, if the

In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in. The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They

Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a document's structure from its presentation. The benefits of this can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML; CSS saves time—you can create or change the appearance of an entire document in just one place; and its compact file size makes web pages load quickly. Eric Meyer, a past member of the CSS&FP Working Group and an internationally known expert on HTML and CSS, tackles the subject with passion and delivers a comprehensive and thorough update to

CSS is the abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet. A style sheet simply holds a collection of rules that we define to enable us to manipulate our web pages. CSS can be applied to our pages in many ways, however the most powerful way to employ CSS rules is from an external cascading style sheet. When used in this manner the full power of CSS can be brought to control the design and appearance of our work from a single controlling location, which makes it easy to update our site on a global basis. It would be foolish, impracticable and probably

Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS styles) are collections of formatting definitions that affect the appearance of web page elements. You can use CSS styles to format text, images, headings, tables, and so forth. With a single style you can pre-designate the color and alignment properties of an element for an entire document. For example, you could apply a style that turns all text to blue and right-aligned. Workflow benefits Using CSS Styles will save time. For example, let's say that you assigned a style to all paragraph text to make it italic. Later,

This introduction isn't meant to teach you everything about Cascading Style Sheets, but is rather meant as an overview of what can be done with CSS. Read through this article, and then decide whether or not CSS is right for your site. At the very least, you'll know what can be done using CSS, so when the time comes to gain more control over the layout and typography of your site, you'll know where to turn. What Are Cascading Style Sheets? CSS is a form of HTML mark-up that provides web designers with greater control over typography and spacing between

There are a number of ways in which CSS can be deployed: External CSS Files The best way to use CSS is to store the CSS data in an external file and link to this file using the <link> HTML element. This approach allows the CSS definitions to be used by every page on your Web site. Internal CSS You can store CSS within a HTML by including it using the <style> element within the <head> section at the top of your HTML file. However this approach means the style definitions cannot be applied to other files. This approach is not