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[WHAT]

1. cascading style sheets - used to seperate the "presentation of content" from "the content" in w3c markup documents like html, xhtml, xml, svg.
1. Used to "position" elements within a page.
2. Used to produce some behaviours (hover)
3. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type) text/css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318
4. used to ...
2. the latest version(current) of the css specification is CSS3. NOT ALL of the

[WHY]

1. ] seperation of concerns  - presentation
2. ] maintainablity -
3. ] manageability - change the color/alignment/size of all heading h1 elements on all pages on the entire site with one change/edit in one file VERSUS changing it on each h1 element on each page within the entire site

[WHERE]

1. ] any web site where you have more than 1 page or even on a single page when there is /may be multiple elements that share the same attributes.

[WHEN]

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[EXAMPLE]

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[HOW-TO]

1. define style rules/classes/properties in a style class, typically stored in a seperate .css file which the calling document links to
2. apply the defined "style" class to the desired html element,

[REFERENCE]

1. wikipedia - css
2. w3c - specification -
3. w3schools - css3 tutorial -
4. mozilla css reference - moz
5. google css reference - webkit
6. microsoft css reference - ms
7. caniuse.com - site that has compatability index for css features with major browsers, ex = http://caniuse.com/#feat=fontface
8. http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_browsersupport.asp

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NAME: css-overview

DESCRIPTION: an overview article on css

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