Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 March 99

Foil 49 CSS1 (and CSS2) Features

From Overview of JavaScript II -- From Cookies to Dynamical HTML CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)


1 CSS1 allows one to specify layout styles (size, color, position) and associate in flexible way with tags
2 Flexible placement of style information -- either in sheets (i.e. separate pages), attributes (style="..") or style statements in header of HTML page
3 Independence from specific scripting languages but natural link to JavaScript
4 Cascading style sheets i.e. one can have a hierarchy of style definitions from general to organization specific to user specific
  • allows good defaults with optional customization
5 Compact and so sensitive to network performance concerns
6 Maintainable as isolates style information
7 Works with XML and HTML

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