Chapter 2. Putting CSS Into Perspective

In Chapter 1, we took a 10,000-foot view of CSS. We began by looking at why using tables for Web page layout is generally a bad idea. Then, we examined the types of CSS rules, and which aspects of a Web page style sheets could affect.

This chapter provides an overview of CSS's place in the Web development cosmos. First, we'll discuss what CSS is good for, and what it can't do for you. We'll spend a little time examining the role of CSS in making Websites more accessible to people with special needs, and those who access the Web outside a conventional browser.

After a quick look at how CSS interacts with the ever-shifting world of Web browsers, we'll discover how we can create CSS that accommodates browsers that don't provide full support for CSS standards, either because they predate the standard, or they just haven't been designed properly.