In the beginning it was to overcome a specific problem. Now it's there just for the joy of web developers everywhere.
"The essence of Pixy’s Fast Rollovers involves creating one image for each navigation item that includes normal, hover and active states stacked on top of each other. Later, we’ll use CSS to change the background-position to reveal each state at the appropriate time.Figure 1.1 on the right shows an example image that I’ve created and used for Fast Company’s new navigation. Each state is 20px tall with a total image height of
"In an ideal world we'd write our (X)HTML and CSS once and it would work perfectly for all browsers. In the real world different browsers and platforms render our creations slightly or drastically different, depending on how adventurous we get with our (X)HTML and CSS. To combat these browser peculiarities developers have adopted a number of coping strategies, including:
@import to hide more advanced styles from older browsers (Netscape 4.x etc.)
CSS hacks (voice-family, escapes, "Tantek hacks," and other techniques)
Conditional CSS
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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
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