XML — Architecture, Tools, Techniques - Department of Computer ...

Even this trivial example shows a weakness: Internet Explorer 5.5 and above centers the text
independent of the document type, Netscape 6 centers for version 3.2 but not 4.0, OmniWeb 4
always displays a scrollbar.
1.2 HTML with CSS
HTML was designed to logically markup information and to leave rendering to the browser.
The example shows that meanwhile form and content get intermixed thoroughly. It is very
difficult to achieve a uniform layout.
Hello, Osnabrück!
body { background: khaki }
table { height: 100%; width: 100% }
td { text-align: center;
font: bold xx-large serif;
color: blue
}
Hello, Osnabrück!
5
hello/2.html
It might be a good idea to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). A style element in the head part
of an HTML document can be used to set rendering properties for almost all elements.
Common properties for elements can be bundled and some properties can be inherited
among nested elements. With a suitable structure the style of an entire document can be
controlled in one central place.
CSS properties use different names and a completely different syntax from HTML attributes —
comments are enclosed in /* */. Some aspects of HTML rendering can only be controlled
using CSS.