Cascading Style Sheets

From SwinBrain

A presentation language developed by the W3C to allow the separation of presentation from markup languages like HTML and XHTML. CSS can also be applied to other applications of XML, such as simple styling of RSS feeds.

In order to get the best out of CSS, authors should ensure that any markup, the CSS will be applied to, is well formed and ideally valid to a specific doctype standard. See Well-Formed vs Valid if you need to understand the difference, as it is an important concept for other web standards that as based on markup.

Links

SwinBrain Links:

• CSS Reference, a quick reference to the CSS properties

External Links:

• W3C CSS Recommendations (The standards)
• W3C CSS Online Validator (Check that your CSS is valid!)
• W3Schools CSS Information (Learn CSS, reference tables, examples)
• A List Apart, CSS Topics (Lots of good articles)
• SitePoint CSS Tutorials