10. Get Splashy: Style Sheets, Fonts, and Special Characters

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The basics of creating style sheets (including the theory behind them)

• The building blocks of style sheets (including <style>, <span>, and <div>), as well as a discussion of linking versus embedding style sheets

• Creating new classes and adding inline style attributes to other HTML elements

• The various properties and styles you can render using style sheets

• Adding special characters and symbols to your document’s text

HTML, in its most ideal form, is application-neutral. Pages created in HTML (and even more so in XHTML) should render as completely and informatively on a cell phone’s display or a palm-held computer as they do in a full-fledged graphical browser ...

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