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Introduction
CSS Basics
Selectors
Terminology
Media Types
Paged Media
Aural Media
Colours
Fonts
Text
Blocks
Lists & counters
Tables
Miscellaneous

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Introduction

Changes from CSS1
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CSS Basics

Setting Styles
Using external files
...media dependant
Setting Style values
Comments
Inheritance

Selectors

...by class
...by id
...contextual
...all elements
...if a child
...adjacent elements
...by attributes

Psuedo Classes
...<A> links
:hover
:active
:focus
:lang
:firstchild

Psuedo Elements
...first line
...first letter
...:before and :after
...inserting content

Terminology

Cascades
"! important"
CSS element model
Block elements
Guide Terminology
Units
...lengths
...colours

Media Types

...giving style
...supported types

Paged Media

margins
page size
crop marks
left, right, first pages
page break before
page break after
page break inside
page names
orphaned content
widowed content

Aural Media

volume
speak
pausebefore
pauseafter
pause
cuebefore
cueafter
cue
playduring
azimuth
elevation
speech rate
voice family
average pitch
pitch range
stress
richness
punctuation
numbers
table headers

Colours

Foreground colour
Background
...-color
...-image
...-repeat
...-attachment
...-position

Fonts

Font
...-family
...-style
...-variant
...-weight
...-size
...-sizeadjust
...-stretch

Text

word-spacing
letter-spacing
text-decoration
text-shadow
vertical-align
text-transform
text-align
text-indent
line-height
quotes

Blocks

individual margins
all margins
individual padding
all padding
border widths
all border-widths
border-color
border-style
individual borders
all borders
width
min width
max width
height
min height
max height
float
clear
position
...where
layered position
text direction
bidirectional override
line height
vertical align
overflow
clipping
visibility

Lists & counters

list-style
list-style-type
list-style-image
list-style-position
marker offset
resetting counters
incrementing counters
nesting counters
counter appearance
displaying counters

Tables

caption position
layout method
border display
border spacing
empty cells

Miscellaneous

Display
Run-in boxes
whitespace
cursors
outline
outline width
outline style
outline colour

Style Sheet Media

Selecting the media type

Style sheets have provision to specify different style information for different viewing devices. This can be done in several ways :

By specifying the supported devices in the HTML document which links to the style sheet. See the external files section for more information.
By listing the supported devices after a corresponding @import statement, but before its semi colon
e.g. @import "sheet.css" print;
By placing the device specific style information in the curly braces of a @media supported devices{ } command in the STYLE section of a document, where supported devices is a list as described below.

Supported Media

The following is a list of media supported for CSS2. The value that you specify is a comma seperated list of the below values, where the names are case sensitive...

screen	Common web browsers
tty	fixed-pitch character devices : teletypes, other text only displays
tv	devices with low resolution, color, limited scrollability
projection	projectors.
handheld	handheld devices (small screen, monochrome,etc).
print	where documents are split into pages.
braille	braille tactile feedback devices.
aural	text-to-speech aids
all	all devices.

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