Beginning CSS
Chapter One
Document Standards
This chapter explores the various options for a document foundation. CSS is a dynamic tool, in
that you can use it in more than one type of document, including HTML, XHTML, and XML documents.
Each type of document may have several variations, flavors, or degrees of strictness. This
chapter describes what's involved in creating each type.
Document standards are something very important to the aspiring CSS web designer. Inclusion of
a Document Type Declaration (explained in a moment) and a well-formed document may mean
the difference between a splitting, grueling headache and a mark-up document including CSS that
works as expected in all the major browsers. Chapter 1 discussed the W3C body, the group assembled
to decide on web standards. This chapter examines the various documents into which you
can incorporate CSS, describing what each document looks like and giving you a few very basic
examples of each document in action.
The explanation of each topic in the following list is quite lengthy and can easily fill an entire
book. This chapter covers only the basics, including
Writing mark-up
Obtaining the required web browsers
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