browser support

Note

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In this section you will find browser support information for all of CSS1 and CSS2. We've divided the specification into a number of logical parts, which are listed below with their contents.

Browsers tested

Our tables have browser support information for

Internet Explorer 4 for Windows
Internet Explorer 5 for Windows
Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows
Internet Explorer 6 for Windows
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows
Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh
Netscape Navigator 4 (all platforms)
Gecko based browsers - Mozilla, Firefox etc. (all platforms)
Safari 1.3/2.0
Opera 7+ (all platforms)

To see the exact browser versions we used, and how we tested them go here.

More information, with detailed browser support notes, is included in the full version of our CSS Guide. This full version of the guide, available for purchase and download for just $24.99, is a complete reference to all of the CSS2 specification, with all the browser support information integrated alongside the descriptions of the properties and selectors.

These notes are also available as online help in both our CSS editor Style Master. Both these applications allow you to target certain browsers as you develop, and see where CSS design decisions you make may not work in some browsers.

Basic Concepts

Embedding a style sheet
Linking to a style sheet
@import
@media
@font-face
Comments
HTML Comment Tags
Specificity
Inheritance

Selectors

Type selectors
Class selectors
ID selectors
Descendant selectors
Link pseudo class selectors
Pseudo element selectors
first-line
first-letter
before
after
Selector groups
Dynamic pseudo class selectors
Language pseudo class selectors
Child selectors
First child selectors
Adjacent selectors
Attribute selectors
Row and column selectors

Text Properties

color
font-weight
font-family
font-size
font-variant
font-style
text-decoration
text-transform
letter-spacing
word-spacing
line-height
vertical-align
text-indent
text-align
direction
unicode-bidi

Background Properties

background-color
background-image
background-attachment
background-repeat
background-position
background

Border Properties

border-width, border-top-width, border-left-width, border-bottom-width, border-right-width
border-color
border-style
border-top, border-left, border-bottom, border-right
border