Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• mechanism for adding a style to a HTML document

• designed to separate content from presentation

• cascading concept improves accessibility

• actual recommendations (standards): CSS1 & CSS2

  • full CSS1 implementation: MAC IE, Netscape 6.0, Opera 4.0

• reference URLs:

  • http://www.w3.org/Style/
  • http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/
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    "Hopefully, future Web innovations will emulate the example
    set by the Web Consortium in its work on CSS”, Jakob Nielsen

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