HTML5 Quick Markup Reference

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18. HTML5 Styling: Using the <style> Tag to Access CSS3

Wallace Jackson¹ 

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Now let’s cover the <style> tag in HTML5, which allows you to use CSS3 cascading style sheet syntax with your HTML5 content creation pipeline (design, markup, style, program, and publish). The CSS3 syntax is loosely based on SGML. It extracts the UI design and HTML5 content styling into its own encapsulated language. You looked at how to externalize CSS3 in Chapter 4. This chapter provides an overview of CSS3 and explains how to access CSS3 style sheets “in-line” by using the <style> tag. You can also use the <style> tag to override the externalized CSS3 ...