for practical use of CSS
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for practical use of CSS
About this site Our focus is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and we have tried to compile a useful source of information, examples and links to other external resources.
CSS is a flexible, cross-platform, standards-based language used to suggest stylistic or presentational features applied throughout entire websites. In their most elegant forms, CSS are specified in a separate file and called from within the HTML header area when documents loads into the CSS-enabled browser. Users can always turn off the author's styles and apply their own or mix their important styles with the authors. This points to the "cascading" aspect of CSS.
The name CSS Pointers Group was given to us by a columnist who used some of our examples in an article on the difficulties of crafting cross browser CSS.
The news group...
...was where we 'met', (and continue to meet) to discuss CSS problems and solutions. Our individual interests and CSS philosophies are available online.
An overview of this site
This is the entry to the part of our site that originally started this project. A frequently updated, comprehensive set of info pages, links to CSS resources, browser bug descriptions, and you name it.
The CSS Pointers
Some of us in this group are active participants in the c.i.w.a.stylesheets news group. The NG FAQ for that news group is maintained from here and can be found in our FAQ repository, along with our own "not-a-FAQ" document.
FAQ lists
Once in a while when our inspiration just starts to overflow, it may happen that an article comes out as a result of that. What has been produced so far in that area, can be found here.
Articles
Our CSS example documents can be reached directly from here, but bear in mind that quite a few of them are used as illustrations to articles available from the link above. You can view these example pages directly from here, but it may at times be better to do that from links given in our articles.
Example pages
Experiments are needed to find out about limitations and shortcomings in how browsers have implemented the current levels of CSS recommendations. As it happens some UA's may in fact interpret fully correct CSS code in totally disastrous ways, leading to application crashes. Our index page for this section is fully Ok to visit, the rest is up to you.
Experimental pages
The whole point of this site is to give info on CSS
as accurate as we know how to. So, it would be a disservice not to make
our own stylesheets available for study. Bear in mind that we don't
guarantee that they are suitable for any thing else than what we are
using them for. More disclaimers on that can be found in our copyright notice.
Stylesheets will be delivered
as...
ContentType:text/css;charset=iso-8859-1
Stylesheets
Even if it's said that CSS helps to separate document presentation from the structure of the content, it can't be helped that at some times the actual markup of a document affects presentation to some extent. This is most obvious in situations where buggy browsers decides to start doing their own thing caused by specific markup constructs that triggers a buggy behavior.
This section of the CSSPG contains some articles that addresses some key elements to think of when designing pages for the WWW.
Markup for
CSS
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