Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets allow the Web author to suggest
a set of presentational effects for a site (the "...
look and feel..."). But if a browser prefers their own
styles, they may disable the author's styles and apply
their own. That's how it's supposed to work!
- Daniel Greene's Style Sheets
- Besides Microsoft's dubious CSS Gallery, Daniel's
pages were one of the first places to see Style Sheets
in action, back in the early days. Daniel green.
- Cascading
Style Sheets
- World Wide Web Consortium W3C recommends using CSS
for Web page presentational effects.
- Style Sheets Now!
- Liam and Poz have outdone themselves AGAIN with
this fine resource on CSS. Web Design Group.
Examples ~
Authoring CSS ~ Everything
Else
The following Cascading Style Sheet Example
Pages all work well in browsers that do not
support CSS. They degrade gracefully on less performant
platforms. They are not designed to work only
on the latest CSS capable browsers. For example, with
occasional exceptions, all of the pages work fine in
Netscape Navigator 1.22 for Windows. They all pass HTML
validation tests, well, mostly. They exhibit very few
obnoxious design features and therefore provide outstanding
examples of CSS-in-action.
One challenge in CSS page design is achieving good
mixing (or "cascading") with user-defined Cascading
Style Sheets. Well-designed CSS mix well with other
CSS. (They are robust in their ability to adapt to diverse
CSS browsing environments.) An additional challenge
(this time in the related graphics design department)
is to create graphics that achieve a high degree of
(visual) independence from background (and text) color
changes. Transparency capabilities of GIF are highly
limited so there may not be much improvement in this
area until PNG gains wider use.
- CSS Pointers
Group
- Sue Sims launched this joint effort to provide "pointers"
to informative resources on Cascading Style Sheets.
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