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Cascading Style Sheets

What are Cascading Style Sheets?

Well… lets break it down…

Cascade means =

n.

1. A waterfall or a series of small waterfalls over steep rocks.
2. Something, such as lace, thought to resemble a waterfall or series of small waterfalls, especially an arrangement or fall of material.
3. A succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
4. Electronics A series of components or networks, the output of each of which serves as the input for the next.
5. A chemical or physiological process that occurs in successive stages, each of which is dependent on the preceding one, and often producing a cumulative effect: an enzymatic cascade.

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Style =

Style may refer to:

  • Design, the process of creating something
  • Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, e.g., clothing
  • Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things
  • Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition
  • Human physical appearance
  • Style (fiction), an aspect of literary composition
  • Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed

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Sheet =

n.

1. A broad rectangular piece of fabric serving as a basic article of bedding.
2.

a. A broad, thin, usually rectangular mass or piece of material, such as paper, metal, glass, or plywood.
b. A flat or very shallow, usually rectangular pan used for baking.
3. A broad, flat, continuous surface or expanse: a sheet of ice.
4. A moving expanse: a sheet of flames.
5. A newspaper, especially a tabloid.
6. Geology A broad, relatively thin deposit or layer of igneous or sedimentary rock.
7. A large block of stamps printed by a single impression of a plate before the individual stamps have been separated.
8. Mathematics A surface of revolution generated by revolving a hyperbola about one of its two symmetric axes.

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SO CASCADING STYLE SHEETS ARE ???

trendy kitten sheets that are falling off your bed???

the long answer  to that question is…. hmmm… interesting, but … i think your wrong…

and the short answer is…. NO!!

THESE ARE CASCADING STYLE SHEETS…

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AND THEY TALK MORE ABOUT THEM HERE:  http://www.pageresource.com/dhtml/indexcss.htm

HERE IS A NICE WALK-THRU WITH TUTORIAL http://lab.christianmontoya.com/css-walkthrough/

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THIS IS WHY THEY CAN BE REALLY, REALLY POWERFUL … LIKE SUPERMAN POWERFUL WHEN YOU ARE BUILDING YOUR SITES…

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HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF CREATING STRUCTURE WITH CSS…

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AND HERE IS THE CREATOR OF CASCADING STYLE SHEETS, Håkon Wium Lie… A NICE NORWEIGAN GUY WHO STUDIED AT MIT MEDIA LAB… AND IS CURRENTLY ONE OF THE HEADS IN DESIGN OF THE BROWSER OPERA…

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AND HERE IS HIS WEBSITE…  ITS GOING TO BE EPIC … RIGHT?

http://people.opera.com/howcome/