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Introduction
CSS Basics
Selectors
Terminology
Media Types
Paged Media
Aural Media
Colours
Fonts
Text
Blocks
Lists & counters
Tables
Miscellaneous

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Introduction

Changes from CSS1
Other CSS sites
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CSS Basics

Setting Styles
Using external files
...media dependant
Setting Style values
Comments
Inheritance

Selectors

...by class
...by id
...contextual
...all elements
...if a child
...adjacent elements
...by attributes

Psuedo Classes
...<A> links
:hover
:active
:focus
:lang
:firstchild

Psuedo Elements
...first line
...first letter
...:before and :after
...inserting content

Terminology

Cascades
"! important"
CSS element model
Block elements
Guide Terminology
Units
...lengths
...colours

Media Types

...giving style
...supported types

Paged Media

margins
page size
crop marks
left, right, first pages
page break before
page break after
page break inside
page names
orphaned content
widowed content

Aural Media

volume
speak
pausebefore
pauseafter
pause
cuebefore
cueafter
cue
playduring
azimuth
elevation
speech rate
voice family
average pitch
pitch range
stress
richness
punctuation
numbers
table headers

Colours

Foreground colour
Background
...-color
...-image
...-repeat
...-attachment
...-position

Fonts

Font
...-family
...-style
...-variant
...-weight
...-size
...-sizeadjust
...-stretch

Text

word-spacing
letter-spacing
text-decoration
text-shadow
vertical-align
text-transform
text-align
text-indent
line-height
quotes

Blocks

individual margins
all margins
individual padding
all padding
border widths
all border-widths
border-color
border-style
individual borders
all borders
width
min width
max width
height
min height
max height
float
clear
position
...where
layered position
text direction
bidirectional override
line height
vertical align
overflow
clipping
visibility

Lists & counters

list-style
list-style-type
list-style-image
list-style-position
marker offset
resetting counters
incrementing counters
nesting counters
counter appearance
displaying counters

Tables

caption position
layout method
border display
border spacing
empty cells

Miscellaneous

Display
Run-in boxes
whitespace
cursors
outline
outline width
outline style
outline colour

Colour and background properties

color

Value	`color` \| `inherit`
Initial	depends on the program used
Used with	all elements
Inherited	yes

Used to set the text color, and can be specified in two ways:

  color: colourname
  color: rgb(red,green,blue) 
        /* red, green, blue are integers in the range 0-255   */

See the Terms page of this guide for a list of values for colourname.

background-color

Value	`color` \| `transparent` \| `inherit`
Initial	`transparent`
Used with	all elements
Inherited	No, but since the default is transparent, the colour behind will be seen
Example	`H1 {background-color : rgb(70%,70%,0%) }`

background-image

Value	`url` \| `none` \| `inherit`
Initial	`none`
Used with	all elements
Inherited	No
Example	`BODY { background-image: url(picture.gif) }`

This property replaces the background colour with an image.

background-repeat

Value	`repeat` \| `repeat-x` \| `repeat-y` \| `no-repeat` \| `inherit`
Initial	`repeat`
Used with	all elements
Inherited	No
Example	`background-repeat: repeat-y; /* Repeats vertically */`

background-attachment

Value	`scroll` \| `fixed` \| `inherit`
Initial	`scroll`
Used with	all elements
Inherited	No

Determines whether the background scrolls with the image, or is "watermarked" onto the screen.

  BODY 
 { 
    background-image: url(imagefilename);
    background-attachment: fixed;
  }

background-position

Value : or :	[`top` \| `center` \| `bottom`] [`left` \| `center` \| `right`]
Value : or :	[`percentage` \| `length` ] [`percentage` \| `length`]
Initial	`0% 0%`
Used with	block-level and replaced elements
Inherited	No
Percentages values	Percentage distance across the element, with 0% being the left or top.
Examples	`background-position: 0% 2cm; background-position: 100%; background-position: 100% 100%;`

If only one percentage or length value is given, it sets the horizontal position only, the vertical position will be 50%. Combinations of length and percentage values are allowed, e.g. '50% 2cm'. Negative positions are allowed.

If the background image is fixed to the screen, the placement is relative to the screen instead of the element.

background

Value	`background-color` \|\| `background-image` \|\| `background-repeat` \|\| `background-attachment` \|\| `background-position`
Used with	all elements
Inherited	No
Example	`P{ background: url(picture.gif) white 20% repeat fixed}`

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