Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 3rd Edition

Chapter 4. Style Sheet Property Reference

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a list of every web page style sheet property that is implemented in mainstream browsers, as well as those specified in the W3C recommendations for Cascading Style Sheets. So that you can readily see whether a particular entry applies to the browser(s) you must support, a version table accompanies each term listed in the following pages. This table tells you at a glance the version of Internet Explorer (IE), pre-Mozilla Netscape Navigator (NN), Mozilla (Moz), Apple Safari (Saf), Opera (starting from version 7), and W3C CSS specification in which the term was first introduced. Several properties removed from the specification with the publication of CSS Level 2.1 are marked with CSS version <2.1 (less than 2.1) and should not be used.

This chapter is organized alphabetically by CSS property name. For each property, you can see quickly what the value types are, an example of real-life source code, and how to address the property from the JavaScript language (if the property is scriptable). A few items implemented in available browsers are proposed for CSS Level 3, but only those that are nearing final approval are marked accordingly. Some additional items for the Mozilla, Safari, and Opera browsers are preliminary versions of forthcoming CSS3 properties. To deploy these features ahead of the formal specification, while preventing possible naming collisions with final CSS3 specifications, each browser ...