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Cascading Style Sheets
To increase the control your institution has over its Web pages, Student Self-Service uses
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Style sheets describe how documents are presented on
screens and in print, and can even specify how abbreviations are pronounced by screen
readers. Also, they tend to result in highly-structured Web pages, which lend themselves to
speech synthesizers.
Note
All page display settings are controlled using Cascading Style Sheets.
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CSS Basics
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were created by the World Wide Web Consortium to
introduce more consistency and structure into Web pages. Using CSSs allows Web
developers to create a set of styles then apply them to all of their Web pages uniformly. If
a developer changes a style on the style sheet, all the Web pages that use that style are
updated.
Styles can affect all parts of a Web page including:
• Headers
• Tables
• Fonts
• Font size
• Font color
• Graphics (that is, bullets, images used with error messages, etc.)
Note
Style sheets can only be used with HTML 4.0. Earlier versions of HTML
do not support them.
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Using CSS technology lets you separate the content of your Web pages from their
structure and their presentation.
Note
For more information about CSS, Style Sheets and Banner Web products,
and support for CSS technology, see the Web General User Guide. •
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