Cascading Style Sheets

• http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ is general link

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) allow more precise and consistent layout than previous HTML attributes such as <FONT>

  • http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1

• Style sheets permit pages to inherit properties from other pages—in effect, they permit object-oriented document structure

• CSS2 was released in May 98, and includes support for media-specific style sheets (e.g. printers and aural devices), downloadable fonts, element positioning and tables.

  • Aural rendering of web documents is needed for example with sight-impaired users, in-car applications, and language instruction
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
  • Cascading Style Sheets Positioning (CSSP) is early “positioning proposal” which can be added to CSS1 before CSS2 implemented

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