Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been around for some years now, but the wide spread use of style sheets has come about slowly due to the fact that full standards based support for style sheets has not been available in the major browsers. Now with the release of the latest versions of both IE and Netscape you'll find much better standards based support for style sheets, and feel better knowing your style definitions are more likely to work right in both browsers. If you've been waiting for the perfect time to start using CSS, now is the perfect time to make the change. This series of articles will guide you through the different properties available and show you how to make use of them on your web pages. This article assumes you have basic knowledge of CSS and what it can do for you, if you are new to the world of CSS I recommend you checkout Eric Meyer's excellent introduction to CSS. This first article will cover the
following topics.