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8.3. Style Classes
CSS2 allows you to define several different styles for the same element
by naming a class for each style at the document level or in an external
stylesheet. Later in a document, you explicitly select which style to apply
by including the styles-related
class
attribute with the related
name
value
in the respective tag.
8.3.1. Regular Classes
For example, in a technical paper, you might want to define one para-
graph style for the abstract, another for equations, and a third for
centered quotations. Differentiate these paragraphs by defining each as
a different style class:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
p.abstract {font-style: italic;
margin-left: 0.5cm;
margin-right: 0.5cm}
p.equation {font-family: Symbol;
text-align: center}
h1, p.centered {text-align: center;
margin-left: 0.5cm;
margin-right: 0.5cm}
-->
</style>
Notice first in the example that defining a class is simply a matter of ap-
pending a period-separated class name as a suffix to the tag name as
the selector in a style rule. Unlike the XHTML-compliant selector, which
is the name of the standard tag and must be in lowercase, the class
name can be any sequence of letters, numbers, and hyphens, but it must
is not the same as
AbsTRact
. Classes, like selectors, may be included
