Style sheets

A list of sites offering information on using style sheets.

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BUILDER.COM - Web authoring - Web development for 4.0 browsers - get started with cascading style sheets

An excellent introduction to style sheets from c|net's builder.com that includes the basics, applying and defining style sheets, basics on element positioning, declaring element positions, and creating 3D and other special effects. Also be sure to check out their Style-o-Matic, which allows you to enter text into a box, then apply style sheets to that text. When you've got it looking the way you want, the Style-o-Matic can then give you the source code needed to add the style sheet to your pages.

 

Cascading Style Sheets Gallery

An excellent demonstration by Microsoft of how you can use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to format your page. Requires Microsoft's Internet Explorer to view.

 

Cascading Style Sheets - Level 1

The W3C Consortium's recommendations and specificiations for cascading style sheets. If you're looking for all the technical details of using and implementing style sheets, this is the place.

 

Cascading Style Sheets - webreference.com

This site features an overview of style sheet theories, a style sheet tutorials, and links to other style sheet references.

 

Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial

A well written and easy to understand style sheets tutorial that includes an introduction to style sheets, a quick reference table for CSS properties, using text, box, font, and background properties, and much more.

 

CSS Frequently Asked Questions

The HTML Writer's Guild's compilation of the most frequently asked questions about Cascading Style Sheets. It answers a lot of questions beginners might have about CSS and contains lots of good and useful information.

 

CSS Gallery

Microsoft's style sheet gallery, which gives several examples of pages created using style sheets. You'll also find links to other style sheet references here.

 

CSS Introduction

An excellent and fairly complete tutorial on adding style sheets to your web pages. This tutorial covers everything from the basics, including what style sheets are and why they're important, to explaining the statements, selectors, and properties or style sheets.

 

CSS Pointers

An excellent collection of links to all kinds of style sheet information, including links to CSS from the W3C, books, reference sites, demo sites, and much more.

 

CSS reference table

c|net's style sheet reference table that lists all the properties and values availble for style sheets in an easy to read and understand format.

 

CSS1 support in Microsoft Internet Explorer

A very complete tutorial of style sheet support as offered by MSIE, which covers everything from basic concepts to detailed descriptions of style sheet tags.

 

CSSCheck, a Cascading Style Sheets Lint

Validate your style sheets to the W3C official specification to check for possible errors.

 

Dynamic HTML Developer Zone

A well written, easy to understand introduction to style sheets which includes "CSS in 5 minutes" as well as examples, a CSS reference table detailing which browsers support various CSS properties, and an excellent list of CSS properties with descriptions, and examples.

 

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

The title says it all: An introduction to CSS which includes a quick tutorial, structures and rules, properties, and more.

 

Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi - Style Sheets

A nice introduction to style sheets that includes an attribute reference guide, a brief FAQ, and a long list of links to other style sheet references.

Style Sheets Guide Index Page

A comprehensive information resource for style sheets that covers everything from the basics to detailed description and examples of style sheet properties, which include information on inheritance, browser support, and applicable tags. This site also features a style sheet FAQ, extended examples, and links to other resources.

 

W3C Core Styles

A collection of about eight public stylesheets that can be used on your web pages by adding one line of HTML to link to the style sheet on the W3C's server. Also provided is an interface that allows you to see what each of the style sheets look like when applied against your choice of web documents. This is a very interesting and useful tool for seeing style sheets in use as well as learning how they work.

 

The WDVL: Cascading Style Sheets

A well written and easy to understand beginner's introduction to, and tutorial for, style sheets.

 

Webmonkey: stylesheets: Mulder's Stylesheets Tutorial

A well written and easy to understand tutorial (with examples) that takes you all the way through learning what style sheets are to controlling positioning and layering.

 

Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide

Another excellent information resource that features information on browser compatibility, getting started, extensive tutorials, and more.

 

WebCoder.com - Your home for JavaScript and Dynamic HTML on the Web.

An excellent reference for learning about, and keep up on, Cascading Style Sheets. This site includes an overview of the CSS specification, a browser compatibility chart, a master list of all the CSS specs including how well CSS is supported by various browsers, the safe list (tags completely or partially supported by all browses), and the danger list (style sheet properties to stay away from).

 

Writing cascading style sheets

A brief introduction and tutorial to style sheets, including problems you might encounter with using them and some examples.