Now that you've had an introduction to XHTML, graphics, web design and web site development concepts, you are ready to study a more advanced technique of formatting web pages - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

CSS is not new -- it was first proposed as a standard by the W3C in 1996. However, CSS has just recently begun to be supported by browsers and other user-agents in a more standard manner. Cascading Style Sheets is a useful technology for separating the presentation style of the web page from the information on the web page itself.

You may recall that the <font> tag is deprecated. This means that while it is still part of the W3C recommendation, it will be dropped from the recommendation in the future. Cascading Style Sheets are used to fulfill the function of the <font> tag in addition to providing many other web page formatting and positioning capabilities. This chapter will introduce you to the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on the Web.

CSS Documentation
W3C Overview of CSS
W3C CSS1 Recommendations
W3C CSS2 Recommendations
Eric Meyer's CSS Mastergrid
CSS Validator

Here's the latest CSS Tip:

Every attempt is made to create a perfect book, but errors tend to appear here and there.

• Page 289
  ".new { text:#FFFF00;"
  should read
  ".new { color: #FFFF00;
  
• Page 305 #2 refers to the pages index.htm, menu.htm, performances.htm, and jobs.htm. It should instead refer to the pages index.htm, services.htm, askthevet.htm, and contact.htm.