sonunigam (Love Geek): Bandwidth
A style sheet is usually stored in the browser cache, and can therefore be used on multiple pages without being reloaded, reducing data transfer over a network. *
04-01-11 - 02:09:15
sonunigam (Love Geek): Page reformatting
With a simple change of one line, a different style sheet can be used for the same page. This has advantages for accessibility, as well as providing the ability to tailor a page 0r site to different target devices. Furthermore, devices not able to understand the styling still display the content. *
04-01-11 - 02:10:17
sonunigam (Love Geek): CSS framework
A CSS framework is a pre-prepared library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of web pages using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks are usually incorporated as external .css sheets referenced in the HTML <head>. *
04-01-11 - 02:11:43
sonunigam (Love Geek): They provide a number of ready-made options for designing and laying out the web page. While many of these frameworks have been published, some authors use them mostly for rapid prototyping, 0r for learning from, and prefer to 'handcraft' CSS that is appropriate to each published site without the design, maintenance and download overhead of having many unused features in the site's styling. *04-01-11 - 02:12:36
sonunigam (Love Geek): Positioning
CSS 2.1 defines three positioning schemes:
Normal flow
Inline items are laid out in the same way as the letters in words in text, one after the other across the available space until there is no more room, then starting a new line below. Block items stack vertically, like paragraphs and like the items in a bulleted list. Normal flow also includes relative positioning of block 0r inline items, and run-in boxes. *
04-01-11 - 02:22:34