Datasheet

Figure 1-5
You might also note that Example 1-1 took some additional handy work to make it come out the same in
Internet Explorer, as it did in Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Throughout this book, you also learn the hacks
and workarounds that you need to make CSS-enabled web pages compatible with IE 6.
Advantages of Using CSS
By using cascading style sheets for the presentation of a web document, you can substantially reduce the
amount of time and work spent on composing not only a single document, but an entire website.
Because more can be done with less, cascading style sheets can reduce the amount of hard disk space
that a website occupies, as well as the amount of bandwidth required to transmit that website from the
server to the browser. Cascading style sheets have the following advantages:
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