Useful for web designers and developers, Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets provides a definitive guide to style sheet, which provides a new level of flexibility for browser-based content. With a comprehensive reference to all features of CSS1 and CSS2 and a very good survey of the features work in eight of the current browsers, this book shows the power of style sheets for the next generation of Web content. Especially for developers, CSS allows precise control of elements within the browser, making it easier to create Web clients that compete with traditional stand-alone application. For the CSS1 standard, every property is marked as not safe, secure, or partially implemented in no less than eight browsers (including Netscape 3 and Internet Explorer 4.x 3 to 5, and Opera for Windows, UNIX, and Mac platforms). The second part of the book is devoted to the CSS2 standard with a description of the proposed support for Unicode, for formatting Web pages (with paged media properties), and for tagging content so it can be read aloud by the sound of computer-generated voice. - Richard Dragan Topics covered: Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), CSS1 and CSS2 standards, the browser wars, the CSS support in Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera and Mozilla browsers; basic CSS (grouping, inheritance, and contextual selectors), cascading order, CSS units , pseudo-classes and pseudo-elements, font properties, color and background properties, text and box properties, classification properties, new CSS2 features, Unicode support, generated content and automatic numbering for lists, properties for printing Web pages, new table properties , aural style sheets for speech-enabled browsers, CSS1 and CSS2 reference and cross-browser comparison of supported properties.