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The text/css Media Type

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Network Working Group                                             H. Lie
Request for Comments: 2318                                        B. Bos
Category: Informational                                        C. Lilley
                                                                     W3C
                                                              March 1998


                        The text/css Media Type

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language for the World
   Wide Web. CSS style sheets have been in use since October 1995 using
   the Media Type text/css without registration; this memo seeks to
   regularize that position.

1.  Introduction

   The World Wide Web Consortium has issued a Recommendation [1], which
   defines Cascading Style Sheets, level 1. This memo provides
   information about the text/css Media Type.

2.  Cascading Style Sheets

   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language for the World
   Wide Web. It describes the presentation (e.g. fonts, colors and
   spacing) of structured documents. CSS is human readable and writable,
   and expresses style in common desktop publishing terminology.

   CSS style sheets have been in use since October 1995 using the Media
   Type text/css without registration; this memo seeks to regularize
   that position.

   A CSS style sheet can be either:







Lie, et. al.                 Informational
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