XHTML - CCIS1301

Lab 5 - Optional

In this lab, we will create a new HTML page and style elements.

Understanding CSS versions

CSS has 3 different standards (CSS1, CSS2 and CSS3). To date, most browsers support CSS1 and CSS2 fairly well. However, there are many new features in CSS3 that aren't supported.

For this lab, go out and find out which of the following declarations have support in IE8, FireFox3 and Safari4. Create a table with the columns "Declaration" (given), "Description","IE8","FireFox3","Safari4". Then in each row, enter the declaration (given below), what this declaration does, and whether it works correctly in the browsers given (Yes / No will be sufficient).

How to style conditionally?

Because different browsers handle CSS slightly differently, there are several ways to force the browser to either ignore or implement specific CSS calls. Find 2 methods of doing this.