March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
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Bringing CSS and XHTML Together
I’ve mentioned that HTML and XHTML documents have an inherent structure, and that’s a point worth repeating. In fact, that’s part of the problem with web pages of old: too many of us forgot that documents are supposed to have an internal structure, which is altogether different than a visual structure. In our rush to create the coolest-looking pages on the Web, we bent, warped, and generally ignored the idea that pages should contain information that has some structural meaning.
That structure is an inherent part of the relationship between XHTML and CSS; without the structure, there couldn’t be a relationship at all. In order to understand it better, let’s look at an example XHTML document and break it down by pieces:
<html>
<head>
<title>Eric's World of Waffles</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sheet1.css" media="all" />
<style type="text/css">
@import url(sheet2.css);
h1 {color: maroon;}
body {background: yellow;}
/* These are my styles! Yay! */
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Waffles!</h1>
<p style="color: gray;">The most wonderful of all breakfast foods is
the waffle--a ridged and cratered slab of home-cooked, fluffy goodness
that makes every child's heart soar with joy. And they're so easy to make!
Just a simple waffle-maker and some batter, and you're ready for a morning
of aromatic ecstasy!
</p>
</body>
</html>The above markup is shown in Figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4. A simple document
Now, let’s examine the various ways this document ...
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