CSS

If you want to build modern web sites, you need to know about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS gives you the power to style and lay out web sites so they are usable, compact, good looking, well structured, and easy to maintain.

The basic purpose of CSS is to allow the designer to define style declarations, and to apply those styles to selected portions of HTML pages using selectors which are references to an element or grop of elements to which the style is applied.

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A common selling point when explaining the benefits of CSS to a client, is that their site will look identical across all platforms Anyone using Internet Explorer 6 however, will soon realize that this is a slight fib.

Fortunately, IE contains a feature called ‘conditional commenting’. Simply make yourself a new IE6 friendly stylesheet, include it in your page as usual and wrap it in a conditional comment to hide it from everything except the guilty browser.

<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylehseet" type="text/css" href="ie6styles.css" />
<![endif]-->