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[CSS2] reword some of the 2.2 abstract
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<h1 id="title">Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS&nbsp;2.1) Specification</h1>
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<h1 id="title">Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 2 (CSS&nbsp;2.2) Specification</h1>
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<h2 id="W3C-doctype">W3C Editors Draft 25 April 2018</h2>
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<p>This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets level&nbsp;2
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<p>This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets level&nbsp;2 (CSS&nbsp;2)
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revision&nbsp;2 (CSS&nbsp;2.2). CSS is a style sheet language
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the content of documents, CSS simplifies Web authoring and
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<P>CSS&nbsp;2.2 is the second revision of CSS level&nbsp;2 <a href="refs.html#ref-CSS2" rel="biblioentry" class="noxref"><span class="informref">[CSS2]</span></a>. It
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corrects a few errors in CSS&nbsp;2.1, the first revision of CSS
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level&nbsp;2.
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It supports media-specific style sheets so that authors may tailor the
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presentation of their documents to visual browsers, aural devices,
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printers, braille devices, handheld devices, etc. It also supports
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content positioning, table layout, features for internationalization
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<p>CSS&nbsp;2.2 is derived from and is intended to replace
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CSS&nbsp;2.1 and CSS2. Some
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parts of CSS2 are unchanged in CSS&nbsp;2.2, some parts have been
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altered, and some parts removed. The removed portions may be used in a
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future CSS3 specification. Future specs should refer to CSS&nbsp;2.2
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(unless they need features from CSS2 which have been dropped in
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CSS&nbsp;2.2, and then they should only reference CSS2 for those
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features, or preferably reference such feature(s) in the respective
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CSS3 Module that includes those feature(s)).
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<p>CSS&nbsp;2.2 is derived from and is intended to replace the
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CSS&nbsp;2.1 and original CSS2
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specifications. See <a href="changes.html">appendix C of this
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document</a> for changes from CSS&nbsp;2.1,
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and <a href="/TR/2011/REC-CSS21-2011-06-07/changes.html">appendix C of
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CSS&nbsp;2.1 for changes from CSS2</a> (noting that certain CSS2 features
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were removed from CSS level 2 in CSS&nbsp2.1). All future
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specifications should refer to CSS&nbsp;2.2 when referring to CSS
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level 2; if they wish to reference features from CSS2 dropped in later
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<h1 id="title">Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 2 (CSS&nbsp;2.2) Specification</h1>
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<p>This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets level&nbsp;2
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<p>This specification defines Cascading Style Sheets level&nbsp;2 (CSS&nbsp;2)
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<P>CSS&nbsp;2.2 is the second revision of CSS level&nbsp;2 [[-CSS2]]. It
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level&nbsp;2.
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presentation of their documents to visual browsers, aural devices,
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content positioning, table layout, features for internationalization
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<p>CSS&nbsp;2.2 is derived from and is intended to replace
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CSS&nbsp;2.1 and CSS2. Some
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parts of CSS2 are unchanged in CSS&nbsp;2.2, some parts have been
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altered, and some parts removed. The removed portions may be used in a
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future CSS3 specification. Future specs should refer to CSS&nbsp;2.2
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(unless they need features from CSS2 which have been dropped in
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CSS&nbsp;2.2, and then they should only reference CSS2 for those
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features, or preferably reference such feature(s) in the respective
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CSS3 Module that includes those feature(s)).
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<p>CSS&nbsp;2.2 is derived from and is intended to replace the
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CSS&nbsp;2.1 and original CSS2
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specifications. See <a href="changes.html">appendix C of this
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document</a> for changes from CSS&nbsp;2.1,
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and <a href="/TR/2011/REC-CSS21-2011-06-07/changes.html">appendix C of
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CSS&nbsp;2.1 for changes from CSS2</a> (noting that certain CSS2 features
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were removed from CSS level 2 in CSS&nbsp2.1). All future
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specifications should refer to CSS&nbsp;2.2 when referring to CSS
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level 2; if they wish to reference features from CSS2 dropped in later
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revisions they should reference the latest applicable CSS module.
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