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simplify title "CSS Styling Attributes Level 1" to "CSS Style Attributes" to reduce chance of unnecessary developer confusion (why "styling" vs "style"?). Make respective changes in body text. Add parenthetical note that style attribute may be named 'style' or something else.
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14 <h1>CSS Style Attributes</h1>
16 <h2 class="no-num no-toc">[LONGSTATUS] [DATE]</h2>
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18 <dt>This version:</dt>
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20 <dd><a href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-style-attr/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-style-attr/</a>
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22 <dt>Latest version:
23 <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-style-attr">http://www.w3.org/TR/css-style-attr</a>
24 <dt>Previous version:
25 <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-style-attr-20100121/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css-style-attr-20100121/</a>
26 <dt>Editors:
27 <dd class="vcard"><a lang="tr" class="fn url" href="http://tantek.com/">Tantek Çelik</a>
28 (<span class="company role url">invited expert</span>,
29 and before at <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft Corporation</a>)
30 <<a class="email"
31 href="mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu">tantek@cs.stanford.edu</a>>
32 </dd>
33 <dd class="vcard"><a class="fn n url" href="http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact"><span class="given-name">Elika</span> <abbr class="additional-name">J.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Etemad</span></a> (<span class="company role">invited expert</span>)
34 </dd>
35 <dt>Previous Editors:
36 <dd class="vcard"><a class="fn url" href="http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/">Bert Bos</a> (<a class="org" href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a>), <<a class="email" href="mailto:bert@w3.org">bert@w3.org</a>>
37 </dd>
38 <dd class="vcard"><span class="fn">Marc Attinasi</span> (<span class="org">AOL/Netscape</span>), <<a class="email" href="mailto:attinasi@netscape.com">attinasi@netscape.com</a>>
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48 <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="abstract">Abstract</h2>
50 <p>Markup languages such as HTML [[HTML401]] and SVG [[SVG11]] provide a style
51 attribute on most elements, to hold inline style information that applies
52 to those elements. One of the possible style sheet languages is CSS. This
53 draft describes the syntax and interpretation of the CSS fragment that can
54 be used in such style attributes.
56 <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="status">Status of this document</h2>
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58 <p>For this specification to exit the CR stage, the following conditions
59 shall be met:
61 <ol>
62 <li>
63 <p>There must be at least two interoperable implementations. For the
64 purposes of this criterion, we define the following terms:</p>
66 <dl>
67 <dt>interoperable
69 <dd>
70 <p>passing the respective test case(s) in the <a
71 href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/">CSS test suite</a>, or, if
72 the implementation is not a Web browser, an equivalent test. Every
73 relevant test in the test suite should have an equivalent test created
74 if such a user agent (UA) is to be used to claim interoperability. In
75 addition if such a UA is to be used to claim interoperability, then
76 there must one or more additional UAs which can also pass those
77 equivalent tests in the same way for the purpose of interoperability.
78 The equivalent tests must be made publicly available for the purposes
79 of peer review.</p>
81 <dt>implementation
83 <dd>
84 <p>a user agent which:</p>
86 <ol>
87 <li>implements the specification.
89 <li>is available (i.e. publicly downloadable or available through some
90 other public point of sale mechanism). This is the "show me"
91 requirement.
93 <li>is shipped, or is a "nightly build" (i.e., a development version
94 for the next release), but is not experimental (i.e., a version
95 specifically designed to pass the test suite and not intended for
96 daily usage going forward).
97 </ol>
98 </dl>
100 <li>
101 <p>A minimum of three months of the CR period must elapse. That
102 is, this specification will not exit CR before (DATE OF PUBLICATION PLUS THREE MONTHS). When the
103 specification exits CR, an implementation report will be published. At
104 this point, no such report exists.</p>
105 </ol>
107 <p>A CSS Style Attributes <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/">Test
108 Suite</a> will be developed during the Candidate Recommendation phase of
109 this CSS Style Attributes specification.
111 <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="contents">Table of contents</h2>
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114 <h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
116 <p>Some document formats have a <dfn>style attribute</dfn> to permit
117 the author to directly apply style information to specific elements
118 in documents. If a document format defines a style attribute (whether named 'style' or something else) and the
119 attribute accepts CSS as its value, then this specification defines that
120 <dfn>style attribute</dfn>’s syntax and interpretation.
122 <div class="example">
123 <p>The following example shows the use of the <code>style</code> attribute
124 in HTML [[HTML401]]:</p>
125 <pre><p style="<em>color: #090; line-height: 1.2</em>">...</p></pre>
126 </div>
128 <h2 id="conformance">Conformance</h2>
130 <p>A document or implementation cannot conform to CSS Style Attributes alone, but can claim conformance to CSS Style Attributes
131 if it satisfies the conformance requirements in this specification when
132 implementing CSS together with style attribute handling as defined in a
133 document language that has one or more CSS style attributes.</p>
135 <p>Conformance to CSS Style Attributes is defined for two
136 classes:
137 <dl>
138 <dt><dfn>document</dfn></dt>
139 <dd>A document represented in a document language that defines a style
140 attribute for one or more of its elements.
141 <dt><dfn>interpreter</dfn></dt>
142 <dd>Someone or something that interprets the semantics of a document and
143 its associated style information.
144 (Most CSS <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#user-agent">user
145 agents</a> fall under this category.)</dd>
146 </dl>
148 <p>The conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of
149 descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology. The key words "MUST",
150 "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT",
151 "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in the normative parts of this
152 document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
153 However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase
154 letters in this specification. All of the text of this specification is
155 normative except sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples,
156 and notes. [[!RFC2119]]</p>
158 <p>Examples in this specification are introduced with the words "for example"
159 or are set apart from the normative text with <code>class="example"</code>,
160 like this:
162 <div class="example">
163 <p>This is an example of an informative example.</p>
164 </div>
166 <p>Informative notes begin with the word "Note" and are set apart from the
167 normative text with <code>class="note"</code>, like this:
169 <p class="note">Note, this is an informative note.</p>
171 <h2 id="syntax">Syntax and Parsing</h2>
173 <p>The value of the style attribute must match the syntax of the contents of
174 a CSS <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#rule-sets">declaration
175 block</a> (excluding the delimiting braces), whose formal grammar is given
176 below in the terms and conventions of the
177 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#syntax">CSS core grammar</a>:
179 <pre>
180 declaration-list
181 : S* declaration? [ ';' S* declaration? ]*
182 ;
183 </pre>
185 <p class="note">Note that following the CSS2.1 convention, comment tokens
186 are not shown in the rule above.
188 <p>The interpreter must parse the style attribute's value using the
189 same forward-compatible parsing rules that apply to parsing declaration block
190 contents in a normal CSS style sheet. See
191 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html">chapter 4 of the CSS2.1
192 specification</a> for details. [[!CSS21]]
194 <p class="note">Note that because there is no open brace delimiting the
195 declaration list in the CSS style attribute syntax, a close brace
196 (<code>}</code>) in the style attribute's value does not terminate the
197 style data: it is merely an invalid token.</p>
199 <h2 id="interpret">Cascading and Interpretation</h2>
201 <p>The declarations in a style attribute apply to the element to which
202 the attribute belongs. In the cascade, these declarations are considered
203 to have author origin and a specificity higher than any selector.
204 CSS2.1 <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity">defines</a>
205 how style sheets and style attributes are cascaded together. [[!CSS21]]
206 Relative URLs in the style data must be resolved relative to the style attribute's element (or to the document if per-element resolution is not
207 defined) when the attribute's value is parsed<!-- so dynamic changes to
208 the base URL don't affect the CSS ~Hixie -->.
210 <p>Aside from the differences in cascading, the declarations in a style
211 attribute must be interpreted exactly as if they were given in a CSS
212 style rule that applies to the element.
214 <p>The CSS Working Group strongly recommends that document languages do
215 not allow multiple CSS style attributes on a single element. If a document
216 language allows multiple CSS style attributes, each must be parsed
217 independently and treated as a separate style rule, the ordering of which
218 should be defined by the document language, else is undefined.
220 <h2 id="ack">Acknowledgments</h2>
222 <p>Thanks to feedback from <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Daniel Glazman</span></span>, <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Ian Hickson</span></span>, <span class="vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Eric</span> <abbr class="additional-name">A.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Meyer</span></span></span>,
223 <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">Björn Höhrmann</span></span>.
224 </p>
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