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)


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



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