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Examples:
What it is:
Style Sheets are a World-Wide Web consortium (W3C) standard, adopted by both major browsers in their 4.0 incarnations.
Style sheets work primarily by separating style from structure.
You have a single page defining all the "style" attributes of the text, and numerous pages on your site point to that style sheet.
Or, style sheet information can be added to the page itself.
Sample attributes include: font face, size, color, spacing,
They are "cascading" because more than one style sheet can be used on the same document, with different levels of importance.
Pros:
They give more precise control over how documents look. In addition to simple font control, you can control positioning.
Consistency: you don't have to remember that all your article titles must be 12Pt Courier Bold Brown, you just define those attributes once in a style called "ArticleTitle", and mark all article titles with that style.
Global changes are more easily made.
Cons:
Not as easy as HTML
Supported only in IE3, IE4, NS4.
Difficulty in porting legacy pages over.
W3C: What Are Style Sheets
Text and other objects can be positioned in layers.
C|Net Style-O-Matic
Show what font styles look like
Resources:
InternetUser: CSS Tips, Tutorials, Examples
W3C: What Are Style Sheets
Dynamic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets
InternetUser: Cascading Style Sheets
Builder.Com: Get Started with Style Sheets
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