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