[ale] Learning CSS by example

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Wed May 4 18:05:03 EDT 2005


James Sumners wrote:
> Yes, the web developer is _very_ handy for someone truly adamant about
> developing good, compliant, web sites. However, you don't need it to
> get the stylesheet. Just type the address in the URL bar. For example,
> http://www.example.com/Product.css would get you the stylesheet.
> 
> If you really want to learn cascading stylesheets, I recommend you
> read http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2 . You can't go wrong by reading the
> actual specification.
> 

As an added bonus, the specification actually reads quite nicely, and if
you snatch the text format, prints *very* nicely on a dot-matrix at 12
CPI.  :)

I keep a copy handy for my work.

It's also not a bad idea to read the HTML 4 spec as well.  XHTML hasn't
gained in popularity *quite* so much yet, and do keep in mind that if
you're developing using CSS that there are many, many, MANY quirks to
it: Mozilla and Firefox are mostly compliant, for example, but MSIE
isn't (at least with CSS 2).  You will find that it's a constant
headache if you have to develop for both...

	- Mike

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