About cascading style sheet compatibility

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About cascading style sheet compatibility

When you design your Web site by using Microsoft FrontPage, you can enable compatibility with an array of different browsers and technologies, among which are cascading style sheet (CSS) features.

If you design a Web site for compatibility with a Web browser that doesn't support CSS, some options that use CSS are unavailable on menus when you author your Web pages. This is to prevent you from accidentally using features that won't be compatible with the Web browsers used by your site visitors.

Because FrontPage uses CSS to implement some style features, some menu items will be unavailable when support for CSS is turned off.

Some of these options are:

  • On the Insert menu, the Layer command is unavailable.

  • On the Format menu, these commands are unavailable: Style, Style Sheet Links, Borders and Shading, and Position.

  • In the Font dialog box, some font effects on the Font tab and the Spacing and Position options on the Character Spacing tab are unavailable.

  • In the Page Templates dialog box, the Style Sheet tab is unavailable.

  • In the Paragraph dialog box, the Indentation and Spacing options are unavailable.

  • In the Layers task pane, all of the options are unavailable.

  • In the Theme task pane, you can view thumbnail images of the themes, but you cannot apply a theme to your page.