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In computing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. more...

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Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

CSS has various levels and profiles. Each level of CSS builds upon the last, typically adding new features and are typically denoted as CSS1, CSS2, and CSS3. Profiles are typically a subset of one or more levels of CSS built for a particular device or user interface. Currently there are profiles for mobile devices, printers, and television sets. Profiles should not be confused with media types which were added in CSS2.

The use of CSS to position the content of a web page is sometimes referred to as CSS-P or CSS Positioning.

Overview

CSS is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentational characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on braille-based, tactile devices. Similarly, identical HTML or XML markup can be displayed in a variety of styles, 'brands', liveries or colour schemes by using different CSS.

CSS information can be provided by various sources:

Author styles (style information provided by the web page author), in the form of

external stylesheets, i.e. a separate CSS-file referenced from the document; embedded style, blocks of CSS information inside the HTML document itself; inline styles, inside the HTML document, style information on a single element, specified using the "style" attribute.;

; User style

a local CSS-file specified by the user using options in the web browser, and acting as an override, to be applied to all documents.;

; User agent style

the default style sheet applied by the user agent, e.g. the browser's default presentation of elements.;

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CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called 'cascade', priorities or 'weights' are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.