Chapter 7. CSS for Mobile Browsers

CSS is very forgiving. If the browser encounters a selector or attribute that it cannot understand, it will just ignore that rule. This will be very helpful in the following pages.

The previous chapter discussed the many standards in the mobile CSS world and noted the CSS extensions available in WAP CSS. Whether we decide to use CSS 2.1, CSS 3.0, CSS Mobile Profile, WAP CSS, or WebKit extensions, it will be just the same; we’ll use CSS selectors, and attributes for those selectors. The standards only tell us which ones are supported. What’s more, we will find some browsers that do not render standard styles but do render nonstandard ones.