What Is CSS 3?
CSS 3 is the next version of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) specification, and a current working draft by the Wirld Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The draft attempts to monularize the specification to allow easier updating in the future. Here's the abstract of the current draft (retrieved December 10th 2007):
"The members of the CSS&FP Working Group have decided to modularize the CSS specification. This modularization will help to clarify the relationships between the different parts of the specification, and reduce the size of the complete document. It will also allow us to build specific tests on a per module basis and will help implementors in deciding which portions of CSS to support. Furthermore, the modular nature of the specification will make it possible for individual modules to be updated as needed, thus allowing for a more flexible and timely evolution of the specification as a whole."
Major Updates in CSS 3
- Multi-Column Layout
- New Selectors
- Improved Color Control
Multi-Column Layouts in CSS 3
Firefox has partial support of the functions of CSS 3 multi column layout: It supports -moz-column count, -moz-column width and a few other CSS attributes. They work like column-width and column-count in the CSS 3 draft module do.
CSS 3 Selectors
With the attribute selectors, targeting only some elements is easy without the need of adding classes. Targeting all images from a certain location, all links with a certain relationship, etc. is very simple. The newest browser versions support these selectors, though some incompletely.
The nth-child selector allows highlighting of every other row in a table, of every other paragraph in a long piece of text, or many other meat tricks. The selector is supported partially by the current version of Firefox.
Color Improvements in CSS 3
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suppeerrgurl25 wrote
thanks for the info!
Posted September 20, 2008
suppeerrgurl25 wrote
thanks for the info!
Posted September 20, 2008
suppeerrgurl25 wrote
thanks for the info!
Posted September 20, 2008
suppeerrgurl25 wrote
thanks for the info!
Posted September 20, 2008
suppeerrgurl25 wrote
thanks for the info!
Posted September 20, 2008
