Common CSS Attributes

The number of attributes one can define using Cascading Stylesheets is vast. We present below the subset which is of most utility

It should be noted that many CSS attributes, such as background and font, are in fact composed of a number of sub-attributes - e.g. the background attribute has background-color, background-repeat etc. as its sub-attributes. In such cases CSS allows the assignment of individual sub-attributes as well as a shorthand assignment of all the sub-attributes at once. In shorthand assignments the sub-attribute settings are separated by a space. If the setting contains a space itself - as is often the case with font names - it should be wrapped in quotes.