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"CSS2 allows you to specify stylesheet for specific media type such as screen or print. Now CSS3 makes it even more efficient by adding media queries. You can add expressions to media type to check for certain conditions and apply different stylesheets."

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including various XML languages like SVG or XHTML). CSS is one of the core languages of the open web and has a standardized W3C specification. Developed in levels, CSS1 is now obsolete, CSS2.1 a recommendation and CSS3, now split into smaller modules, is progressing on the standard track. The first early drafts of CSS4 modules are being written.

A Visualization of how ready different parts of HTML5/CSS3 are for day to day use

Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites.

Reader Jason Lucchesi send me in a neat demo of image captions sliding in overtop an image on rollover. The effect used a bunch of nested divs to get it done, so I thought I'd do my own version of it using the standard HTML5 structure for an image with a caption, and CSS3 it up.

Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers.

Ever seen a website where you just want to touch everything? Tim Van Damme explains the techniques he used in the Gowalla redesign What do drop shadows, gradients, rounded corners, transformations and animations have in common? Yes, they're a recipe for the disaster we once called Web 2.0, and have since been taken behind the shed, but they're also a group of new tricks we can do with CSS. Not all browsers support them yet, but enough do to let us have some fun.

Determining a unit of measurement to size our text can be a topic of heated debate, even in this day and age. Unfortunately, there are still various pros and cons that make the various techniques less desirable. It's just a matter of which less-desirable is most desirable.