In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Overview

CSS is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document structure (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation provides a number of benefits, including improved content accessibility, greater flexibility and control in the specification of presentational characteristics, and reduced complexity of the structural content. CSS is also capable of controlling the document's style separately in alternative rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on braille-based, tactile devices.

CSS books

• Jeffrey Zeldman: Designing With Web Standards, New Riders, ISBN 0735712018 (paperback) (book's companion site)
• Eric A. Meyer: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 0596005253
• Eric A. Meyer: Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 Programmer's Reference, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072131780
• Keith Schengili-Roberts: Core CSS, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-130-09278-9
• //Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web// by HÃ¥kon Wium Lie and Bert Bos
• The Zen of CSS Design (co-authored by CSS Zen Garden Owner, Dave Shea), ISBN 0321303474
• Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
• Eric Meyer On CSS
• More Eric Meyer On CSS

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