CSS Is Easy!

Summary and Further Reading

See? Isn’t CSS easy? In this article I provided a very thorough introduction to CSS; however, I left out many of this powerful formatting language’s more advanced selector features and style attributes for brevity. While you could sort through the CSS1 and CSS2 specs at http://www.w3.org, many of the advanced features described in these specifications remain unsupported in current browsers. The CSS2 spec in particular is only about half-implemented in even the most up-to-date browsers. Features to do with aural presentation and printing just haven’t been a priority for browser manufacturers, even if they have been in the official spec for years.

A better bet would be to pick up a good book on the subject. I recommend Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference from O’Reilly, but there are any number of other choices out there, all perfectly good. Just make sure your reference of choice includes information about browser compatibility for every feature discussed. It will keep you from spending long hours scratching your head when something doesn’t work as expected.