CSS Properties
- W3C Recommendation?
- Font Properties
- Text Properties
- Border Properties
- Background Properties
- Styling Lists
- Wrap Up
CSS Properties
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W3C Recommendation?
The CSS properties put forth in this article are those specified in the W3C's recommendation for CSS2. So who exactly is W3C, and what exactly is a recommendation?
W3C is an international consortium which works on developing web standards. They decided what HTML should look like, and then the browser companies built Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Mozilla to interpret that code. Browsers are built to read the code that the W3C decides on. Granted, some browsers don't support web standards nearly as well as they should - Internet Explorer is a prime offender - but W3C has recommendations for many markup languages, and CSS is one.
The initial version of CSS was CSS-1 in 1996. In 1998, CSS-2 was released. While we await a recommendation for CSS-3, let us hope that browsers such as Internet Explorer begin to support CSS-2 fully.
Amongst the following examples, most of the CSS properties work well in most major browsers. I will try to indicate where this is not the case.