Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide

Appendix D. CSS Support Chart

As we’ve seen, browser compatibility—or a lack thereof—is the biggest obstacle to adoption of CSS. This appendix provides a comprehensive guide to how the browsers have implemented support for CSS1. Check this master list to get a rough idea of how well a given property and its values are supported.

This appendix uses the following key:

Y

Yes

N

No

P

Partial

B

Buggy

Q

Quirky

“Buggy” can refer to anything from mangled display to an actual browser crash. “Quirky” means that, while the browser is technically compliant with the specification, it acts in a fashion which authors may not expect.

This list and the notes that follow are current as of April 2000. For the latest information, please visit http://www.webreview.com/ .

Spec Reference	Property or Value	Windows 95					Macintosh				Notes
		NN4	IE3	IE4	IE5	Op3	NN4	IE3	IE4	IE5
1.1	Containment in HTML	P	P	P	P	Y	P	B	Y	Y
	LINK	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	B	Y	Y
	<STYLE>...</STYLE>	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
	@import	N	N	Q	Q	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Section D.1
	<x STYLE="dec;” >	B	Y	Y	Y	Y	B	Y	Y	Y	Section D.1
1.2	Grouping	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
	x, y, z {dec;}	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
1.3	Inheritance	B	P	Y	Y	Y	B	B	Y	Y	Section D.1
	(inherited values)	B	P	Y	Y	Y	B	B	Y	Y
1.4	Class selector	Y	B	Q	Q	Y	Y	B	Y	Y	Section D.1
	.class	Y	B	Q	Q	Y	Y	B	Y	Y
1.5	ID selector	B	B	B	B	Y	B	B	B	Y	Section D.1
	#ID	B	B	B	B	B	B