Style Sheets

[Jenne Heise, Idea Hamster]

>Maybe I'm a little slow but I really don't understand what is to be
>gained from style sheets.  I don't see the real difference between such
>things as <b></b> or <strong></strong> when I get exactly the same
>result.  What is the real difference?  How do they breakdown when used
>by older browsers?  What do I gain? More important, what do I loose if I
>use style sheets?
>

Er... you lose nothing. Style sheets are fully compatible with earlier
browsers. Really fully compatible, not 'Netscape says'-- we've tried it, and
it works.

The cool thing about style sheets is that you can define how you want things
to look, once, and use the style sheet over and over again.

Style sheets isn't the difference between <B> and <STRONG>. It's the ability
to define <STRONG> as being red, or in a different font, or underlined, and/or
bold. You can redefine <CITE> to look different: underlined for chemistry,
bold and italic for book reviews, etc.

And at the very least, you can define a standard background/color scheme and
change it only once, on the style sheet, and have that apply to every page you
used the style sheet on!

Examples: my review site at:
    http://www.lehigh.edu/~jahb/witchbib/
has special cite and H3 tags specified.

Our library pages have a style sheet call in them to use the standard Lehigh
color scheme.

Jennifer Heise,                             Net: jahb at lehigh.edu    \
Senior Specialist, Web Management, Lehigh Univ. Info. Resources   / /
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.       \

"There ain't no doubt in no-one's mind that love's the finest thing around.."
Jennifer Heise,                             Net: jahb at lehigh.edu    \
Senior Specialist, Web Management, Lehigh Univ. Info. Resources   / /
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.       \

"There ain't no doubt in no-one's mind that love's the finest thing around.."