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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

In the HTML 4.0 Sourcebook, Ian Graham describes style sheets: "Style sheets are a mechanism for adding formatting and other typographic information to an HTML document, but in such a way that the HTML markup is largely unaffected." Graham goes on to explain "HTML is a semantic markup language designed to describe the meaning and structure of a document and not the physical presentation. . . carefully crafted HTML documents can, in principle, be presented by many different technologies, ranging from graphical displays to Braille readers to