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  <title>CSS Styling Attributes Level 1</title>
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   <h1>CSS Styling Attributes Level 1</h1>

   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 14 January
    2010</h2>

   <dl>
    <dt>This version:</dt>
    <!-- <dd><dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-style-attr-20100114/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-style-attr-20100114/</a></dd> -->

    <dd><a
     href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-style-attr/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-style-attr/</a>


    <dt>Latest version:

    <dd><a
     href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-style-attr">http://www.w3.org/TR/css-style-attr</a>


    <dt>Previous version:

    <dd><a
     href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css-style-attr-20020515">http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css-style-attr-20020515</a>


    <dt>Editor:

    <dd><a href="http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact/">Elika J. Etemad</a>


    <dt>Previous Editors:

    <dd><span lang=tr>Tantek &Ccedil;elik</span> (<a
     href="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft</a>), &lt;<a
     href="mailto:tantekc@microsoft.com">tantekc@microsoft.com</a>&gt;

    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/">Bert Bos</a> (<a
     href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a>), &lt;<a
     href="mailto:bert@w3.org">bert@w3.org</a>&gt;

    <dd>Marc Attinasi (AOL/Netscape), &lt;<a
     href="mailto:attinasi@netscape.com">attinasi@netscape.com</a>&gt;
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  <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=abstract>Abstract</h2>

  <p>Markup languages such as HTML and SVG provide a styling attribute on
   most elements, to hold a fragment of a style sheet that applies to those
   elements. One of the possible style sheet languages is CSS. This draft
   describes the syntax of the CSS fragment that can be used in the styling
   attribute.

  <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=status>Status of this document</h2>
  <!--begin-status-->

  <p>This is a public copy of the editors' draft. It is provided for
   discussion only and may change at any moment. Its publication here does
   not imply endorsement of its contents by W3C. Don't cite this document
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  <p>This document was produced by the <a href="/Style/CSS/members">CSS
   Working Group</a> (part of the <a href="/Style/">Style Activity</a>).

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  <p>This specification is a <strong>Last Call Working Draft</strong>. All
   persons are encouraged to review this document and <strong>send comments
   to the <a
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   mailing list</strong> as described above. The <strong>deadline for
   comments</strong> is <strong>9 February 2010</strong>.

  <p>A CSS Styling Attribute <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/">Test
   Suite</a> will be developed during the Candidate Recommendation phase of
   this CSS Styling Attribute specification.

  <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=contents>Table of contents</h2>
  <!--begin-toc-->

  <ul class=toc>
   <li><a href="#intro"><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</a>

   <li><a href="#conformance"><span class=secno>2. </span>Conformance</a>

   <li><a href="#syntax"><span class=secno>3. </span>Syntax and Parsing</a>

   <li><a href="#interpret"><span class=secno>4. </span>Cascading and
    Interpretation</a>

   <li><a href="#ack"><span class=secno>5. </span>Acknowledgments</a>

   <li><a href="#references"><span class=secno>6. </span>References </a>
    <ul class=toc>
     <li class=no-num><a href="#normative-references">Normative
      references</a>

     <li class=no-num><a href="#informative-references">Informative
      references</a>
    </ul>
  </ul>
  <!--end-toc-->

  <h2 id=intro><span class=secno>1. </span>Introduction</h2>

  <p>Some document formats have a <dfn id=styling-attribute>styling
   attribute</dfn> to permit the author to directly apply style information
   to specific elements in documents. If a document format defines a styling
   attribute and the attribute accepts CSS as its value, then this
   specification defines this <dfn id=css-styling-attribute>CSS styling
   attribute</dfn>&rsquo;s syntax and interpretation.

  <div class=example>
   <p>The following example shows the use of the <code>style</code> attribute
    in HTML:</p>

   <pre>&lt;p style="<em>color: #090; line-height: 1.2</em>"&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
  </div>

  <h2 id=conformance><span class=secno>2. </span>Conformance</h2>

  <p>A document or implementation cannot conform to CSS Styling Attributes
   Level 1 alone, but can claim conformance to CSS Styling Attributes Level 1
   if it satisfies the conformance requirements in this specification when
   implementing CSS together with styling attribute handling as defined in a
   document language that has CSS styling attributes.

  <p>Conformance to CSS Styling Attributes Level 1 is defined for two
   classes:

  <dl>
   <dt><dfn id=document>document</dfn>

   <dd>A document represented in a document language that defines a styling
    attribute for one or more of its elements.

   <dt><dfn id=interpreter>interpreter</dfn>

   <dd>Someone or something that interprets the semantics of a document and
    its associated style information. (Most CSS <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#user-agent">user agents</a>
    fall under this category.)
  </dl>

  <p>The conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of
   descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology. The key words "MUST",
   "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT",
   "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in the normative parts of this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. However, for
   readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this
   specification. All of the text of this specification is normative except
   sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. <a
   href="#RFC2119" rel=biblioentry>[RFC2119]<!--{{!RFC2119}}--></a>

  <p>Examples in this specification are introduced with the words "for
   example" or are set apart from the normative text with
   <code>class="example"</code>, like this:

  <div class=example>
   <p>This is an example of an informative example.</p>
  </div>

  <p>Informative notes begin with the word "Note" and are set apart from the
   normative text with <code>class="note"</code>, like this:

  <p class=note>Note, this is an informative note.

  <h2 id=syntax><span class=secno>3. </span>Syntax and Parsing</h2>

  <p>The value of the styling attribute must match the syntax of the contents
   of a CSS <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">declaration
   block</a>, whose formal grammar is given below in terms of the <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#syntax">CSS core
   grammar</a>:

  <pre>
declaration-list
  : S* declaration [ ';' S* declaration ]*
  ;
</pre>

  <p class=note>Note that following the CSS2.1 convention, comment tokens are
   not shown in the rule above.

  <p>The interpreter must parse the styling attribute's value using the same
   forward-compatible parsing rules that apply to parsing declaration block
   contents in a normal CSS style sheet. See <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html">chapter 4 of the CSS2.1
   specification</a> for details. <a href="#CSS21"
   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a>

  <p class=note>Note that because there is no open brace delimiting the
   declaration list in the CSS styling attribute syntax, a close brace
   (<code>}</code>) in the styling attribute's value does not terminate the
   style data: it is merely an invalid token.

  <h2 id=interpret><span class=secno>4. </span>Cascading and Interpretation</h2>

  <p>The declarations in a styling attribute apply to the element to which
   the attribute belongs. CSS2.1 <a
   href="/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity">defines</a> how style sheets and
   styling attributes are cascaded together. <a href="#CSS21"
   rel=biblioentry>[CSS21]<!--{{!CSS21}}--></a> Relative URLs in the style
   data must be resolved relative to the styling attribute's element (or to
   the document if per-element resolution is not defined) when the
   attribute's value is parsed<!-- so dynamic changes to
the base URL don't affect the CSS ~Hixie -->.


  <p>Aside from the differences in cascading, the declarations in a styling
   attribute must be interpreted exactly as if they were given in a CSS style
   rule that applies to the element.

  <p>The CSS Working Group strongly recommends that document languages do not
   allow multiple CSS styling attributes on a single element. If a document
   language allows multiple CSS styling attributes, each must be parsed
   independently and treated as a separate style rule, the ordering of which
   should be defined by the document language, else is undefined.

  <h2 id=ack><span class=secno>5. </span>Acknowledgments</h2>

  <p>Thanks to feedback from Daniel Glazman, Ian Hickson, Eric A. Meyer,
   Bj&ouml;rn H&ouml;hrmann.

  <h2 id=references><span class=secno>6. </span>References</h2>

  <h3 class=no-num id=normative-references>Normative references</h3>
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  <dl class=bibliography>
   <dt style="display: none"><!-- keeps the doc valid if the DL is empty -->
    <!---->

   <dt id=CSS21>[CSS21]

   <dd>Bert Bos; et al. <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908"><cite>Cascading Style
    Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification.</cite></a> 8 September
    2009. W3C Candidate Recommendation. (Work in progress.) URL: <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090908</a>
    </dd>
   <!---->

   <dt id=RFC2119>[RFC2119]

   <dd>S. Bradner. <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt"><cite>Key
    words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.</cite></a> Internet
    RFC 2119. URL: <a
    href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt</a>
    </dd>
   <!---->
  </dl>
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