1.8. Summary

You should now understand the historical and technological contexts in which CSS has emerged, what major problems it is designed to solve, and how it works at a surface level. You should also know why tables are a bad idea as a Web page layout device, even though they have other, perfectly valid uses.

In addition, you can identify both the parts of a CSS rule and at least three ways of categorizing CSS style rules in general.

Chapter 2 drills more deeply into the prospective issues surrounding CSS. It clears up some of the misconceptions you may have about this technology, and describes some of the important issues you'll have to take into consideration because of the way Web browsers work (or don't) with CSS rules.