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CSS Pointers Menu These links were compiled by Toby Brown, Jan Roland Eriksson, and Sue Sims. Additional information about the authors' CSS philosophies and usage may be found online. Suggestions and criticisms are welcome.
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CSS from the W3C A CSS beginner's tutorial which presupposes no knowledge of style sheets. The author promises additions to the article covering CSS positioning, printing and aural style sheets.
The Amazing Mr. Fahrner The Base Stylesheet describes the "consensus default" rendering of all HTML 4.0 elements in Mosaic-derivative Web browsers (Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer). It is intended as an exercise in stylesheet architecture, a browser testing tool, an (unofficial) complement to the HTML 4.0 specification, and a basis for editing or "cascading in" other stylesheet modules.
Tutorials Problems in Implementation Our own compliation of what's wrong, and what can be done about it.
A mini-suite testing backgrounds and horizontal rules, truly WYSINWOG.
In the French language, the tests are grouped into general categories.
"is provided as a way for vendors and page authors to test their browser's conformance to the CSS1 specification."
Solutions in Implementation The most useful solution to utilizing style with horizontal rules is revealed, along with the process by which author Alan Flavell investigated implementation differences in his search for a workable solution.
CSS Columns Browser Support Demo Pages This is worth reading through, *before* looking at his use of CSS to create a non-bland design, including drop caps.
Toby Brown and Liam Quinn not only use CSS, but suggest some design considerations well worth considering.
Seems a useful technique for changing document-wide or site-wide style on a regular basis.
A very nice tutorial, with plenty of examples and some sample CSS files for downloading.
(one for IE, and one for NN, with explanation why that was necessary)
Miscellany According to the author: Missing or mismatched end tags are detected and corrected, end tags in the wrong order are corrected, fixes problems with heading emphasis, recovers from mixed up tags, perfecting lists by putting in tags missed out, missing quotes around attribute values are added, proprietary elements are recognized and reported as such.
Liam Quinn's excellent 'lint' for checking the syntax and style of your CSS.
Discussions by interested parties, including those responsible for the CSS Specification, on current and proposed implementation issues. Not the best place to ask questions about your own authoring problems, but a good place to glean current concerns.
The best place to ask questions about your own authoring problems.
Electronic Software Publishing provides an extensive listing of links of interest to authors.
Everything you wanted to know about HTML, but were afraid to ask.
Essays & Articles The first column on CSS includes a sample stylesheet
Brief introduction to Style Sheets by Jukka Korpela.
"Yucca" shares concerns about the complexity, incomplete specification, change to the user/author paradigm, and warns of using CLASS declarations as a means to add extensibility to HTML.
Author Terry Sullivan's first musings on CSS.
Resources Another excellent reference from the Web Design Group. Very comprehensive, in a newly designed format, utilizing - CSS!
Very complete comparison of IE and NN support on Win'95 and Mac platforms.
CSS FAQs Refreshing honesty about missing/buggy implementation, with concise examples, and some good "tips".
A basic CSS primer, with a reminder to consider backward compatibility.
Contact Us TM: (for notagif) It isn't really; it's just coined by Sue 2 February, 1998. (Happy birthday, Chris!)
Special thanks to Ian Feldman for some excellent design suggestions, which were Full-O-Reason.[tm]
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