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CSS: The Definitive Guide
The Definitive Guide
by Eric Meyer
Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 CSS and Documents 1 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a powerful way to affect the presentation of a docu- ment or a collection of documents. Obviously, CSS is basically useless without a doc- ument of some sort, since it would have no content to present. Of course, the definition of “document” is extremely broad. For example, Mozilla and related browsers use CSS to affect the presentation of the browser chrome itself. Still, with- out the content of the chrome—buttons, address inputs, dialog boxes, windows, and so on—there would be no need for CSS (or any other presentational information). The Web’s Fall from Grace Back in the dimly remembered, early years of the Web (1990–1993), HTML was a fairly lean language. It was composed almost entirely of structural elements that were useful for describing things like paragraphs, hyperlinks, lists, and headings. It had nothing even remotely approaching
(2008)
CSS Pocket Reference
Visual Presentation for the Web
by Eric Meyer
Chapter 1 CSS Pocket Reference Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the W3C standard for the visual presentation of web pages (although it can be used in other settings as well). After a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS, this pocket reference provides an alphabeti- cal reference to all CSS2.1 selectors, followed by an alphabet- ical reference to all CSS2.1 properties. Conventions Used in This Book The following typographical conventions are used in this book: Italic Used to indicate new terms, URLs, filenames, file exten- sions, directories, commands and options, and program names. For example, a path in the filesystem will appear as C:\windows\system. Constant width Used to show the contents of files or the output from commands. For more information, visit O’Reilly’s web site for this book, where examples, errata, and any plans for future editions are listed: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515058 1
(2007)
CSS Pocket Reference
by Eric Meyer
Chapter 0 CSS Pocket Reference Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the W3C standard for the visual presentation of web pages (although it can be used in other settings as well). After a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS, this pocket reference provides an alphabeti- cal reference to all CSS2.1 selectors, followed by an alphabet- ical reference for all CSS2.1 properties. Conventions Used in This Book The following typographical conventions are used in this book: Italic Used to indicate new terms, URLs, filenames, file exten- sions, directories, commands and options, and program names. For example, a path in the filesystem will appear as C:\windows\system. Constant width Used to show the contents of files or the output from commands. For more information, visit O’Reilly’s web site for this book, where examples, errata, and any plans for future editions are listed: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csspr2 1
(2004)
