CSS: 36 useful links

This web site is filled with links to articles, tips, tutorials, editors, and templates on CSS.

This web site answers some of those frequently asked questions, explains some of the basics of CSS, gives tips and tricks for tackling the problems with Netscape 4, offers a tutorial about positioning with CSS - CSS-P, web design without tables.

This web site describes cross-browser CSS layout techniques: 2, 3 and 4 column page. The examples are reduced to their essential code and the source is displayed on each page.

This guide is divided into five sections. The first is introductory, and covers core ideas and concepts, without getting into too much of a practical nature. The second, third and fourth sections cover the features of CSS. The last section covers real world issues, such as building for compatibility, and ensuring accessibility of pages using CSS.

The Base Stylesheet describes the consensus default rendering of all HTML 4.0 elements in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is intended as a basis for editing or cascading in other stylesheet modules, an informative reference, a complement to the HTML 4.0 specification, an exercise in stylesheet architecture, and a browser testing tool.

This specification describes a set of extensions to CSS to better support printing from the web. These extensions let style sheets express page breaks, page boxes, and media dependencies. Also, a way to point to an alternate print document is described.

This specification extends CSS to support the definition of nested frames for controlling how a page is to be divided up into frames and which part of a document goes into which frame.

This section of the W3C web site presents an overview of web style sheets: what's new; learning CSS; CSS browsers; authoring tools, specs; CSS test suites; W3C core styles; and info for developers, SAC, translations, working group.

The aural rendering of a document combines speech synthesis and auditory icons. Often such aural presentation occurs by converting the document to plain text and feeding this to a screen reader - software or hardware that simply reads all the characters on the screen. This results in less effective presentation than would be the case if the document structure were retained. Style sheet properties for aural presentation may be used together with visual properties or as an aural alternative to visual presentation.

The W3C Core Styles offer authors an easy way to start using style sheets without becoming designers. By adding a link in the head of your documents, a CSS browser will fetch the style sheet of your choice from W3C's server when it encounters your document. A non-CSS browser will display the HTML document like it always did.