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Developing with Web Standards
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Developing with Web Standards

by John Allsopp
November 2009
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 35m
English
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Chapter Four: Presentation

In this chapter, we’ll look at the core concepts and syntax of CSS. Later on, we’ll put this knowledge into practice with focused chapters on page layout (Chapter 9), CSS resets and frameworks (Chapter 10), CSS3 (Chapters 12 and 13), and web typography (Chapter 15).

A Short History of Style for the Web

The idea of separating structured content from information about how that content should be presented has been around since the 1970s. The initial proposal for HTML included the idea that presentation would be the domain of a separate style sheet language, but no such language was developed. In the mid-1990s, browser makers responded to a huge demand for control over presentation by creating such new HTML features as ...

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