cascading style sheet

noun

A stylesheet in Cascading Style Sheets format.

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cascading style sheet1

nouncascading style sheet (plural cascading style sheets)

plural cascading style sheets · alternative Cascading Style Sheet

  1. computingA stylesheet in Cascading Style Sheets format.

    His prose is a cascading style sheet of aperçus.

    2006 May 20, Toby Litt, “In with IT crowd”, in The Times, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2021
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    Conversely, one cascading style sheet can be applied to a potentially infinite number of Web pages, giving Web page authors heretofore unknown ease of application of style across that potentially infinite number of pages.

    1998, Peter Belesis, Dynamic HTML Unleashed, 2nd edition, Sams.net Publishing, →ISBN, page 62

    You will also need to add a cascading style sheet (CSS) by producing the following file in an editor and saving it in the same file as your “hello.xml”: hello {display: block; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: bold;}

    2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 47

    In addition to cookies, advertisers can use a computer’s IP address to determine a user’s geographic location, can use invisible “web bugs” to monitor activity and can look at an individual’s browser history by using JavaScript or a cascading-style-sheet technique.

    2011 November 21, Deborah M. Todd, “Internet tracking: As more advertisers monitor every click of your mouse, should someone monitor the monitoring?”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 85, number 113, page A-8

    A theme must have at least one cascading style sheet.

    2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress® Design and Development, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 214

    Synonyms: CSS

Cascading Style Sheet2

nounCascading Style Sheet (plural Cascading Style Sheets)

plural Cascading Style Sheets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of cascading style sheet.

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nounA stylesheet in Cascading Style Sheets format.

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