CHAPTER 5
Style Sheets
A golden rule in web site standardization is to separate content from appearance. External style sheets should be preferred to inline styles except when only a small portion of a web page is styled. The syntax and naming convention of external style sheets and the style attribute values are slightly different. To achieve the highest code quality, the style sheets must be valid (error-free), and optimized in terms of scope, inheritance, and declaration order.
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