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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<html lang="en">
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<HEAD>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Appendix B: Changes from CSS1</TITLE>
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<LI>The concept of <A HREF="media.html">media types</A>.
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<LI>The <a href="cascade.html#value-def-inherit">'inherit'</a>
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value for all properties.
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<LI><A HREF="page.html">Paged media</A>
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<LI><A HREF="aural.html">Aural style sheets</A>
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<LI>Several internationalization features, including <a
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href="lists.html#list-props">list numbering styles</a>, support for <a
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href="visuren.html#direction">bidirectional text</a>, and support for
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language-sensitive <a href="generate.html#quotes">quotation
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marks</a>.
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<LI><A HREF="fonts.html#font-selection">An extended font selection</A>
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mechanism, including intelligent matching, synthesis, and downloadable
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fonts. Also, the concept of system fonts has been is introduced, and a
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<LI><A HREF="visuren.html#relative-positioning">Relative</A> and <A
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HREF="visuren.html#absolute-positioning">Absolute positioning</A>,
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including <A HREF="visuren.html#fixed-positioning">fixed positioning</A>.
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HREF="visuren.html#absolute-positioning">absolute positioning</A>,
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including <A HREF="visuren.html#fixed-positioning">fixed
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positioning</A>.
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<LI>New box types (along with block and inline): <a
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href="visuren.html#compact">compact</a> and <a href="visuren.html#run-in">
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run-in</a>.
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<LI>The ability to control content <a
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href="visufx.html#overflow">overflow</a>, <a
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href="visufx.html#clipping">clipping</a>, and <a
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href="visufx.html#visibility">visibility</a> in the visual rendering
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model.
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<LI>The ability to specify minimum and maximum <a
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href="visudet.html#min-max-widths">widths</a> and <a
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href="visudet.html#min-max-heights">heights</a> in the visual
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rendering model.
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<LI>An extended <A HREF="selector.html">selector</A> mechanism,
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including child selectors, adjacent selectors, and attribute selectors.
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<LI><A HREF="generate.html#generated-text">Generated content and automatic
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numbering</A>
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<LI><A HREF="generate.html#generated-text">Generated content</a>,
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<a href="counters">counters and automatic numbering</A>, and
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<LI>Text shadows, through the new <LI><span
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<LI>Text shadows, through the new <span
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class="propinst-text-shadow">'text-shadow'</span> property.
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<LI><A HREF="ui.html#system-colors">System colors</A>
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<LI>System <A HREF="ui.html#system-colors">colors</A> and
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<A href="ui.html#system-fonts">fonts</a>.
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<LI><A href="ui.html#cursor-props">Cursors</a>.
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<LI><A href="ui.html#dynamic-outlines">Dynamic outlines</a>.
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<H2><a name="changes-from-css1">Semantic changes from CSS1</a></H2>
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<LI>The meaning of "!important" has been changed. In CSS1,
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"!important" in an author's style sheet took precedence over
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<li>Please also consult the <em>normative</em> section on the <a
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CSS2 tokenizer</a>.
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