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Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification

W3C Recommendation 12-May-1998

1 About the CSS2 Specification

2 Introduction to CSS2
- 2.1 A brief CSS2 tutorial for HTML
- 2.2 A brief CSS2 tutorial for XML
- 2.3 The CSS2 processing model
  - 2.3.1 The canvas
  - 2.3.2 CSS2 addressing model
- 2.4 CSS design principles
3 Conformance: Requirements and Recommendations
- 3.1 Definitions
- 3.2 Conformance
- 3.3 Error conditions
- 3.4 The text/css content type
4 CSS2 syntax and basic data types
- 4.1 Syntax
- 4.2 Rules for handling parsing errors
- 4.3 Values
- 4.4 CSS document representation
  - 4.4.1 Referring to characters not represented in a character encoding
5 Selectors
- 5.1 Pattern matching
- 5.2 Selector syntax
  - 5.2.1 Grouping
- 5.3 Universal selector
- 5.4 Type selectors
- 5.5 Descendant selectors
- 5.6 Child selectors
- 5.7 Adjacent sibling selectors
- 5.8 Attribute selectors
- 5.9 ID selectors
- 5.10 Pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes
- 5.11 Pseudo-classes
- 5.12 Pseudo-elements
6 Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance
- 6.1 Specified, computed, and actual values
- 6.2 Inheritance
  - 6.2.1 The 'inherit' value
- 6.3 The @import rule
- 6.4 The cascade
7 Media types
- 7.1 Introduction to media types
- 7.2 Specifying media-dependent style sheets
  - 7.2.1 The @media rule
- 7.3 Recognized media types
  - 7.3.1 Media groups
8 Box model
- 8.1 Box dimensions
- 8.2 Example of margins, padding, and borders
- 8.3 Margin properties: 'margin-top', 'margin-right', 'margin-bottom', 'margin-left', and 'margin'
  - 8.3.1 Collapsing margins
- 8.4 Padding properties: 'padding-top', 'padding-right', 'padding-bottom', 'padding-left', and 'padding'
- 8.5 Border properties
9 Visual formatting model
- 9.1 Introduction to the visual formatting model
  - 9.1.1 The viewport
  - 9.1.2 Containing blocks
- 9.2 Controlling box generation
- 9.3 Positioning schemes
  - 9.3.1 Choosing a positioning scheme: 'position' property
  - 9.3.2 Box offsets: 'top', 'right', 'bottom', 'left'
- 9.4 Normal flow
- 9.5 Floats
  - 9.5.1 Positioning the float: the 'float' property
  - 9.5.2 Controlling flow next to floats: the 'clear' property
- 9.6 Absolute positioning
  - 9.6.1 Fixed positioning
- 9.7 Relationships between 'display', 'position', and 'float'
- 9.8 Comparison of normal flow, floats, and absolute positioning
- 9.9 Layered presentation
  - 9.9.1 Specifying the stack level: the 'z-index' property
- 9.10 Text direction: the 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties
10 Visual formatting model details
- 10.1 Definition of "containing block"
- 10.2 Content width: the 'width' property
- 10.3 Computing widths and margins
- 10.4 Minimum and maximum widths: 'min-width' and 'max-width'
- 10.5 Content height: the 'height' property
- 10.6 Computing heights and margins
- 10.7 Minimum and maximum heights: 'min-height' and 'max-height'
- 10.8 Line height calculations: the 'line-height' and 'vertical-align' properties
  - 10.8.1 Leading and half-leading
11 Visual effects
- 11.1 Overflow and clipping
  - 11.1.1 Overflow: the 'overflow' property
  - 11.1.2 Clipping: the 'clip' property
- 11.2 Visibility: the 'visibility' property
12 Generated content, automatic numbering, and lists
- 12.1 The :before and :after pseudo-elements
- 12.2 The 'content' property
- 12.3 Interaction of :before and :after with 'compact' and 'run-in' elements
- 12.4 Quotation marks
  - 12.4.1 Specifying quotes with the 'quotes' property
  - 12.4.2 Inserting quotes with the 'content' property
- 12.5 Automatic counters and numbering
- 12.6 Markers and lists
  - 12.6.1 Markers: the 'marker-offset' property
  - 12.6.2 Lists: the 'list-style-type', 'list-style-image', 'list-style-position', and 'list-style' properties
13 Paged media
- 13.1 Introduction to paged media
- 13.2 Page boxes: the @page rule
- 13.3 Page breaks
- 13.4 Cascading in the page context
14 Colors and Backgrounds
- 14.1 Foreground color: the 'color' property
- 14.2 The background
  - 14.2.1 Background properties: 'background-color', 'background-image', 'background-repeat', 'background-attachment', 'background-position', and 'background'
- 14.3 Gamma correction
15 Fonts
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Font specification
- 15.3 Font selection
- 15.4 Font Characteristics
- 15.5 Font matching algorithm
  - 15.5.1 Mapping font weight values to font names
  - 15.5.2 Examples of font matching
16 Text
- 16.1 Indentation: the 'text-indent' property
- 16.2 Alignment: the 'text-align' property
- 16.3 Decoration
  - 16.3.1 Underlining, overlining, striking, and blinking: the 'text-decoration' property
  - 16.3.2 Text shadows: the 'text-shadow' property
- 16.4 Letter and word spacing: the 'letter-spacing' and 'word-spacing' properties
- 16.5 Capitalization: the 'text-transform' property
- 16.6 Whitespace: the 'white-space' property
17 Tables
- 17.1 Introduction to tables
- 17.2 The CSS table model
  - 17.2.1 Anonymous table objects
- 17.3 Column selectors
- 17.4 Tables in the visual formatting model
  - 17.4.1 Caption position and alignment
- 17.5 Visual layout of table contents
- 17.6 Borders
- 17.7 Audio rendering of tables
  - 17.7.1 Speaking headers: the 'speak-header' property
18 User interface
- 18.1 Cursors: the 'cursor' property
- 18.2 User preferences for colors
- 18.3 User preferences for fonts
- 18.4 Dynamic outlines: the 'outline' property
  - 18.4.1 Outlines and the focus
- 18.5 Magnification
19 Aural style sheets
- 19.1 Introduction to aural style sheets
- 19.2 Volume properties: 'volume'
- 19.3 Speaking properties: 'speak'
- 19.4 Pause properties: 'pause-before', 'pause-after', and 'pause'
- 19.5 Cue properties: 'cue-before', 'cue-after', and 'cue'
- 19.6 Mixing properties: 'play-during'
- 19.7 Spatial properties: 'azimuth' and 'elevation'
- 19.8 Voice characteristic properties: 'speech-rate', 'voice-family', 'pitch', 'pitch-range', 'stress', and 'richness'
- 19.9 Speech properties: 'speak-punctuation' and 'speak-numeral'
Appendix A. A sample style sheet for HTML 4.0
Appendix B. Changes from CSS1
- B.1 New functionality
- B.2 Updated descriptions
- B.3 Semantic changes from CSS1
Appendix C. Implementation and performance notes for fonts
- C.1 Glossary of font terms
- C.2 Font retrieval
- C.3 Meaning of the Panose Digits
- C.4 Deducing Unicode Ranges for TrueType
- C.5 Automatic descriptor generation
Appendix D. The grammar of CSS2
- D.1 Grammar
- D.2 Lexical scanner
- D.3 Comparison of tokenization in CSS2 and CSS1
Appendix E. References
- E.1 Normative references
- E.2 Informative references
Appendix F. Property index
Appendix G. Descriptor index
Appendix H. Index

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