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Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Jennifer Niederst Robbins
September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<style> — NN 4, 6 MSIE 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 HTML 4.01 WebTV Opera5

Synopsis

<style>...</style>

Allows authors to embed style sheet rules in the head of the document There may be any number of <style> elements in a document.

Attributes

media=screen|tty|tv|projection|handheld|print|braille|aural|all

Specifies the target medium to which the style sheet applies.

type= content-type

Required. Specifies the style sheet language of the element’s contents. The only viable type at this time is text/css.

title= text

Provides a title for the element.

The following example shows our sample rules embedded in a simple HTML document:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
                           <! -- 
                              H1 {color: red}
                              P {font-size: 12pt;
                                  font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
                                 }
                           -->
                           </STYLE>
<TITLE>Style Sheets</TITLE>
</HEAD>
...
</HTML>

The <style> element must be placed within the <head> tags in the document. In addition, it is usually necessary to place HTML comment tags (<!-- and -->) around the <style> contents. This hides the style information from browsers that don’t understand the <style> tag. (Otherwise, they might display the rules as text in the browser window.)

Currently, Cascading Style Sheets is the only widely supported style sheet language, but the W3C has prepared for the possibility of additional languages to be added in the future by providing the type attribute within the <style> element. The only viable style type as of this writing is text/css. If the type attribute is omitted, some browsers may ignore ...

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