Is there an alternative to CSS?

Question

Is there a style sheet formatting language alternative to CSS? Or is CSS the current single language for doing Style Sheet formatting type things?

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Answer 1

No (mostly)

If you want to create layouts that work in the maximum number of client machines then you'll have to learn CSS.

If you can limit your users to IE8, Chrome, Safari and Firefox then you can probably get away with CSS2, otherwise you're going to have to learn all the differences with CSS1, along with the myriad broken things - especially in IE5 and 6.

HTML 3.2 includes some formatting tags (such as or

) but you can't do much with them.

Why only mostly? - If you can assume that users have either Flash or Silverlight and build web applications for them. Then your layout will be perfect, but it'll need a client side plugin (which not everyone has) in order to work. I'd only go down that route if you need really rich client UI.