Many people are accustomed to style sheets in word-processing. W3C's style sheets offer extensive control over the presentation of Web pages. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is widely implemented. It is playing an important role in styling not just HTML, but also many kinds of XML documents: XHTML, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and SMIL (the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), to name a few. It is also an important means of adapting pages to different devices, such as mobile phones or printers.
W3C is also developing the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL, see the XML Activity Statement). XSL applies a “style sheet” to transform one XML-based document into another. XSL and CSS can be combined.
W3C has a page on CSS resources, including browsers, authoring tools and tutorials.
The working group published two CRs (Media Queries, Cascading Style Sheets Level2 Revision1), two last calls (CSSOM View Module, CSS Multi-column Layout Level3, Selectors Level3), one normal WD (CSS Fonts Module Level3) and five first WDs (CSS Image Values Module Level3, CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level3, CSS Transitions Module Level3, CSS 2D Transforms Module Level3, CSS 3D Transforms Module Level3, CSS Animations Module Level3)
The CSS level 2 test suite is currently expected to have between 5000 and 6000 tests before the summer of 2010.
Use of CSS on the Web is still growing slowly. (An estimated 75% of all HTML pages use CSS; XML-based formats were not tested.) The number of implementations is also increasing, especially implementations for print are becoming more numerous and several support as much CSS as desktop browsers do.
The group expects to issue a last call for comments soon for Backgrounds and Borders. The Selectors and CSS Namespaces modules should become PR. If the test suite gets sufficient review, CSS2 might also become PR. Paged Media is on the list to become CR.
| Group | Chair | Team Contact | Charter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (participants) | Daniel Glazman, Peter Linss | Chris Lilley, Bert Bos | Chartered until 30 November 2010 |
The WG was called “CSS & FP WG” from 1997 to 2000.
This Activity Statement was prepared for the March 2010 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (Members only) per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.
Bert Bos, Style Activity LeadModified: $Date: 2010/02/02 15:51:38 $