7. Formatting with Style Sheets Under jQuery

Selectors and filters, plus the corresponding filter methods, are the basis of dynamically creating and changing web pages based on style sheets. On the Web, such style sheets in the form of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the standard. Purely with regard to web pages, other style sheet languages really do not play any important role. And the times when we were using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) commands to visually enhance a web page are now over. Using tags such as <font> or the general specifying of colors or alignment via HTML attributes is now only appropriate for quick and dirty sites that do not have to fulfill any particular expectations. This is not really worth mentioning, apart from ...

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