cascading style sheet

English

Alternative forms

• Cascading Style Sheet

Noun

cascading style sheet (plural cascading style sheets)

1. (web design) A stylesheet in Cascading Style Sheets format.

   Hypernym: stylesheet

   • 1998, Peter Belesis, Dynamic HTML Unleashed, 2nd edition, Sams.net Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:

     Conversely, one cascading style sheet can be applied to a potentially infinite number of Web pages, giving Web page authors heretofore unknown ease of application of style across that potentially infinite number of pages.

   • 2006 May 20, Toby Litt, “In with IT crowd”, in The Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 October 2021:

     His prose is a cascading style sheet of aperçus.

   • 2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

     You will also need to add a cascading style sheet (CSS) by producing the following file in an editor and saving it in the same file as your “hello.xml”: hello {display: block; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: bold;}

   • 2011 November 21, Deborah M. Todd, “Internet tracking: As more advertisers monitor every click of your mouse, should someone monitor the monitoring?”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 85, number 113, page A-8:

     In addition to cookies, advertisers can use a computer’s IP address to determine a user’s geographic location, can use invisible “web bugs” to monitor activity and can look at an individual’s browser history by using JavaScript or a cascading-style-sheet technique.

   • 2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress® Design and Development, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 214:

     A theme must have at least one cascading style sheet.

Synonyms

• CSS

References

• “cascading style sheet”, in Collins English Dictionary.