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ll publications, whether on paper or the Web, need a balance of style
and content to be effective. Style without content is all flash with no
real information. Content with no style is flat and uninteresting, thus
losing the substance. Traditionally, HTML has tied style to content wherever
possible, preferring logical tags such as
<strong> to indicate emphasis to
physical tags such as
<b> for bold. But although this emphasis on the logical
worked for many single documents, its imprecision made achieving style con-
sistency across a broad range of Web pages unrealistic, if not impossible.
The Cascading Style Sheets specification has changed this situation—and
much more. As support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) grows, more
Web designers can alter font faces, type size, spacing, and many other
page elements with a single command—and have the effect ripple not
only throughout the page, but also throughout a Web site. Moreover, an
enhancement of CSS, initially called CSS-P (for positioning), is the founda-
tion for what have become commonly known as AP elements.
Dreamweaver was one of the first Web-authoring tools to make the appli-
cation of Cascading Style Sheets user-friendly—and in this latest ver-
sion, Dreamweaver has integrated CSS throughout the program. Through
Dreamweaver’s intuitive interface, the Web designer can access more than
70 different CSS settings, affecting e ...