Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a mechanism for allowing web authors and readers to attach styles including fonts, colors, etc. to HTML documents. Authors can attach styles to their HTML documents whild readers may have their own personal style sheets.

Typically the styles are placed in the HEAD of the document, although they can also be placed in the BODY and often are placed in a separate file. The basic format of the STYLE tag is:
    <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
        HTML tag.class {special formatting}
        ....
        <SPAN> {special formatting}
    </STYLE>

e.g.
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">

</STYLE>

Style Sheet example
Form Letter Style Sheet
Simple Layer Example
Dynamically changing a layer's visibility
Style Sheet Template

Links to documents on CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 - W3C Recommendation 17 Dec 1996
Cascading Style Sheets
W3C Session: Cascading Style Sheets: Slides
Web Style Sheets
Stylesheets Tutorial
Web Design Group
CSS Gallery(requires the use of Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher)
CSShark Answers FAQs
Cascade - software for creating style sheets
StyleMaster
Style Sheets Reference Guide
Putting Style Sheets in Perspective
Positive Propaganda (example)
Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) - from W3C.
Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2
Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets
W3C CSS Validation Service

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