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1 Document structure & metadata
2 Language variants
3 Fonts & line height
4 Text direction
5 Lists
6 Tables
7 International aspects of CSS styling
8 Ruby
This section will contain topics such as:
International layout considerations
Specifying the encoding of a css stylesheet
This section will contain topics such as:
Specifying styles based on language
Always use an @charset declaration as the first thing in an external stylesheet file.
To set the character encoding you may use the @charset "at-rule". Its syntax is:
@charset "<IANA defined charset name>";
A CSS stylesheet can quite easily contain non-ASCII characters. For example, CSS selectors may reference element names, attribute names, or attribute values that are in another language than English. Also, values for such CSS properties as content, quote, or font-family may include non-ASCII characters in many parts of the world.
For style declarations embedded in a document, @charset rules are not needed and must not be used. These rules are for use in linked style sheets.
Only one @charset rule may appear in an external style sheet and it must appear at the very start of the document. It must not be preceded by any characters, not even comments.
The name must be a charset name as described in the IANA registry. (See also the complete list of charsets). For example to label your CSS file as UTF-8 encoded you would write:
@charset "UTF-8";
| source | FAQ: CSS character encoding declarations |
| GEO FAQ, How do I declare the character encoding inside a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) style sheet? |
This section will contain topics such as:
Font embedding & selection
Font characteristics
Font matching
Setting font size
Setting line height & inter-line spacing
This section will contain topics such as:
Setting directionality of block elements
Augmenting the bidi algorithm for inline text
Overriding the bidi algorithm
Implementing vertical text
This section will contain topics such as:
Font specification
Font decoration
Writing mode & text direction
Text alignment & justification
Indentation
Line breaking
White space control & text overflow
Text spacing
Text decoration
Document grids
Capitalization
Text-combine
Line stacking
Baseline alignment