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A concept to control an indication form in a document document with the style sheet. It was proposed in a purpose to divide a look and structure. It is used in HTML and XML, a markup document such as SGML and office software widely.

When I let a style sheet apply to an HTML document used on Web widely, CSS is generally used. Because CSS is proud of overwhelming diffusiveness from such present conditions, there is the thing that merely style sheet points at CSS.

A style sheet language (British:) The computer language which describes the appearance of the structured document with Style sheet language). With the structured document, it is the document which is similar to a definition definitely a knob and a paragraph. Because contents are classified definitely, the program to display the document can set arbitrary indication-style. There is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for a style sheet language used widely, and it is used though I appoint the style of a document written by HTML, XHTML, SVG, XUL, other SGML. I can reuse contents in the various situation, and a point that indication is possible is nominated for one of the advantages of the structured document by various methods. Different indication is provided by giving a different style sheet to the logic structure of the structured document.

For example, a rule of the style, the rules such as a color and a font or the layout must be applied to display the contents of the structured document. The thing which collected rules of this style is a style sheet. The editor and the printer handled information (rules such as an appearance, spelling, the consistency of the punctuation mark) such as the style sheet in the form of the document from old days. In the electronic edition, the style sheet language is used as the thing which handles a rule about the appearance than spelling and the punctuation mark.