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CSS Current Status

See also the planned specifications of the CSS Working Group.

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document.

Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

2008-04-11

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification

errata

A more recent draft may replace this Recommendation.

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2000-11-13

Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification

errata

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1999-06-29

Associating Style Sheets with XML documents

errata

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Group Notes

2009-06-04

Requirements for Japanese Text Layout

translations · errata

Describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051.
2000-11-06

CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

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1998-12-10

List of suggested extensions to CSS

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Drafts

Below are draft documents: Candidate Recommendations, Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Candidate Recommendations

2009-09-08

Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification

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2009-04-23

Media Queries

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2008-12-10

CSS Mobile Profile 2.0

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2008-12-05

CSS Marquee Module Level 3

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2008-05-23

CSS Namespaces Module

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2004-05-11

CSS3 Basic User Interface Module

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2003-05-14

CSS3 Ruby Module

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2003-05-14

CSS TV Profile 1.0

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Last Call Drafts

2009-10-15

CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3

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2009-10-06

A MathML for CSS profile

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2009-06-30

CSS3 module: Multi-column layout

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2009-03-10

Selectors Level 3

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2008-11-14

Selectors API

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2008-07-21

CSS Color Module Level 3

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2008-05-16

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007

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2006-10-13

CSS Print Profile

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2006-10-10

CSS3 Module: Paged Media

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Other Working Drafts

2009-08-04

CSSOM View Module

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2009-07-23

Flexible Box Layout Module

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2009-07-23

CSS Image Values Module Level 3

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2009-06-18

CSS Fonts Module Level 3

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2009-04-02

CSS Template Layout Module

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2009-03-20

CSS 2D Transforms Module Level 3

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2009-03-20

CSS 3D Transforms Module Level 3

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2009-03-20

CSS Animations Module Level 3

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2009-03-20

CSS Transitions Module Level 3

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2007-10-19

Behavioral Extensions to CSS

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2007-09-05

CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3

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2007-08-09

CSS basic box model

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2007-05-04

CSS3 module: Generated Content for Paged Media

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2007-03-06

CSS Text Level 3

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2006-09-19

CSS3 Values and Units

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2005-12-15

CSS3 module: Cascading and inheritance

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2004-12-16

CSS3 Speech Module

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2004-02-24

CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module

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2004-02-24

The CSS 'Reader' Media Type

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2003-08-13

CSS3 module: Presentation Levels

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2003-08-13

CSS3 module: Syntax

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2003-05-14

CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module

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2002-11-07

CSS3 module: Border

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2002-11-07

CSS3 module: Lists

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2002-05-15

CSS3 module: line

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2002-05-15

Syntax of CSS rules in HTML's "style" attribute

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2001-05-23

CSS3 introduction

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Obsolete Specifications

These specifications have either been superseded by others, or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival purposes, but are not intended to be used.

Retired

1999-09-02

CSS Printing Extensions

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1999-09-02

Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) Specification

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1999-09-02

Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets

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1999-09-02

Web Fonts

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