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Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 - World Wide Web Consortium

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Contents<br />

1 About the CSS2 Specification<br />

1.1 Reading the specification . . . . . . . . . . . 13 .<br />

1.2 How the specification is organized . . . . . . . . 13 .<br />

1.3 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .<br />

1.3.1 Document language elements and attributes . . . . 14 .<br />

1.3.2 CSS property definitions . . . . . . . . . 14 .<br />

Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 .<br />

Initial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .<br />

Applies to . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .<br />

Inherited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .<br />

Percentage values . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .<br />

Media groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 .<br />

1.3.3 Shorthand properties . . . . . . . . . . 16 .<br />

1.3.4 Notes and examples . . . . . . . . . . 17 .<br />

1.3.5 Images and long descriptions . . . . . . . . 17 .<br />

1.4 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 .<br />

1.5 Copyright Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 .<br />

1.1 Reading the specification<br />

This specification has been written with two types of readers in mind: CSS<br />

authors and CSS implementors. We hope the specification will provide authors<br />

with the tools they need to write efficient, attractive, and accessible documents,<br />

without overexposing them to CSS’s implementation details. Implementors,<br />

however, should find all they need to build conforming user agents [p. 32] . The<br />

specification begins with a general presentation of CSS and becomes more and<br />

more technical and specific towards the end. For quick access to information, a<br />

general table of contents, specific tables of contents at the beginning of each<br />

section, and an index provide easy navigation, in both the electronic and printed<br />

versions.<br />

The specification has been written with two modes of presentation in mind:<br />

electronic and printed. Although the two presentations will no doubt be similar,<br />

readers will find some differences. For example, links will not work in the printed<br />

version (obviously), and page numbers will not appear in the electronic version.<br />

In case of a discrepancy, the electronic version is considered the authoritative<br />

version of the document.<br />

1.2 How the specification is organized<br />

The specification is organized into the following sections:<br />

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