CSS1 (and CSS2) Features

• 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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