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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Jennifer Robbins
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The following example shows these sample rules embedded in an XHTML document:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    <head><style type="text/css">
       h1 {color: #666;}
       p  {font-size: 90%;
           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. 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. The type attribute is required in both HTML and XHTML; if it is omitted, some browsers may ignore the entire style sheet.

In addition, the media attribute in the style element (not shown in the example) may be used to target the medium (screen, print, handheld, etc.) to which the style sheet should be applied. If it is not present, the default is “all” media. The media attribute is discussed in the "CSS for Other Media" section.

Tip

Browsers that do not support style sheets (such as Version 2 browsers) will not recognize the style element and may display the style rules on the page. If for some reason you need to support non-CSS browsers, you can prevent the contents from displaying by placing them within comments, ...

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