Embedded styles
A formatting instruction can often be attached directly to the element it applies to, and attributes are generally used for this purpose. In XHTML, the Style attribute contains formatting instructions:
<p style="color:red">DANGER: This is an Inline style</p>
The primary benefit of this approach is that the document author has complete and direct control over the appearance of every element instance.
But this is really just a hybrid approach, mixing descriptive markup with formatting markup. As such, it still requires the document author to understand formatting instructions, and forces him to apply them to every element instance.
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