Technology - Web Development 5 - Cascading Style Sheets & DOM

Synopsis

We describe Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - the highly flexible system for controlling presentation of text and graphics in web pages - and the major HTML/CSS editing programs. The Document Object Model is the central mechanism by which JavaScript can access and manipulate the page within a browser. We discuss the principles of DOM and the W3C standards which are increasingly being adopted by browser developers.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • 2.1.1 Screen, print and audio
  • 2.2 Printing and other rendering models
  • 2.3 Inline style
  • 2.4 Default stylesheet and stylesheet language
  • 2.5 Defining a style
  • 2.6 Importing style sheets
  • 2.7 The Cascade - Precedence of different sources of style information
  • 2.8 Inheritance
  • 2.9 Multiple classes
  • 2.10 Multiple selectors
  • 2.11 Aspects of presentation controlled by CSS
• 3. HTML and CSS editors
  • 3.1 Dreamweaver
  • 3.2 Mozilla Composer and Nvu
  • 3.3 Amaya
  • 3.4 Web Developer plugin
• 4. Document Object Model (DOM)
  • 4.1 DOM standardisation
    • 4.1.1 JavaScript reading and writing
  • 4.2 DOM Level 1
  • 4.3 DOM Level 2
  • 4.4 DOM Level 3
  • 4.5 Web page as a programming environment
• 5. Related reports