Hour One: Understanding Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can open up a whole new dimension to your Web designs, delivering power and flexibility beyond what's available in plain HTML.

In this introductory hour, you'll learn

• What style sheets are and what the term "cascading" refers to
• How the Cascading Style Sheets standard was written and what the two levels of CSS refer to
• How CSS is used with HTML and XML and when to use it
• The types of style effects you can produce with CSS and what you can't do
• How browser support for CSS affects what you can do with style sheets

Sample Code

You can download the sample code from each hour as one package or individual files.

• Download all [5K tar.gz file]
• HTML Writers Guild page without stylesheet [HTML]

Web Links

These are the links presented in this hour, given here for easy reference.

• International Center for Disability Resoruces on the Internet
• CSS Level One Recommendation
• CSS Level Two Recommendation
• HTML Writers Guild

Updates and Errata

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