Harvard Extension School
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development | Spring 2020

## Sample "UA" default stylesheets for HTML 2.0 and HTML 4.0

UA = User-Agent = HTTP Client = Web Browser

Take a look at the sample default stylesheets for HTML 2.0 and HTML 4.0 listed in the Appendices of the CSS1 and CSS2 Recommendations.

- Sample style sheet for HTML 2.0 [Local copy]
- Default style sheet for HTML 4.0 [Local copy]

### HTML 4 Sample default CSS

    html, address,
    blockquote,
    body, dd, div,
    dl, dt, fieldset, form,
    frame, frameset,
    h1, h2, h3, h4,
    h5, h6, noframes,
    ol, p, ul, center,
    dir, hr, menu, pre   { display: block }
    li              { display: list-item }
    head            { display: none }
    table           { display: table }
    tr              { display: table-row }
    thead           { display: table-header-group }
    tbody           { display: table-row-group }
    tfoot           { display: table-footer-group }
    col             { display: table-column }
    colgroup        { display: table-column-group }
    td, th          { display: table-cell; }
    caption         { display: table-caption }
    th              { font-weight: bolder; text-align: center }
    caption         { text-align: center }
    body            { margin: 8px; line-height: 1.12 }
    h1              { font-size: 2em; margin: .67em 0 }
    h2              { font-size: 1.5em; margin: .75em 0 }
    h3              { font-size: 1.17em; margin: .83em 0 }
    h4, p,
    blockquote, ul,
    fieldset, form,
    ol, dl, dir,
    menu            { margin: 1.12em 0 }
    h5              { font-size: .83em; margin: 1.5em 0 }
    h6              { font-size: .75em; margin: 1.67em 0 }
    h1, h2, h3, h4,
    h5, h6, b,
    strong          { font-weight: bolder }
    blockquote      { margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px }
    i, cite, em,
    var, address    { font-style: italic }
    pre, tt, code,
    kbd, samp       { font-family: monospace }
    pre             { white-space: pre }
    button, pre,
    input, object,
    select          { display:inline-block; }
    big             { font-size: 1.17em }
    small, sub, sup { font-size: .83em }
    sub             { vertical-align: sub }
    sup             { vertical-align: super }
    table           { border-spacing: 2px; }
    thead, tbody,
    tfoot           { vertical-align: middle }
    td, th          { vertical-align: inherit }
    s, strike, del  { text-decoration: line-through }
    hr              { border: 1px inset }
    ol, ul, dir,
    menu, dd        { margin-left: 40px }
    ol              { list-style-type: decimal }
    ol ul, ul ol,
    ul ul, ol ol    { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0 }
    u, ins          { text-decoration: underline }
    br:before       { content: "\A" }
    :before, :after { white-space: pre-line }
    center          { text-align: center }
    abbr, acronym   { font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.1em }
    :link, :visited { text-decoration: underline }
    :focus          { outline: thin dotted invert }

    /* Begin bidirectionality settings (do not change) */
    BDO[DIR="ltr"]  { direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: bidi-override }
    BDO[DIR="rtl"]  { direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override }

    *[DIR="ltr"]    { direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed }
    *[DIR="rtl"]    { direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed }

    @media print {
      h1            { page-break-before: always }
      h1, h2, h3,
      h4, h5, h6    { page-break-after: avoid }
      ul, ol, dl    { page-break-before: avoid }
    }

### HTML 2 Sample default CSS

    BODY {
      margin: 1em;
      font-family: serif;
      line-height: 1.1;
      background: white;
      color: black;
    }

    H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, P, UL, OL, DIR, MENU, DIV,
    DT, DD, ADDRESS, BLOCKQUOTE, PRE, BR, HR, FORM, DL {
      display: block }

    B, STRONG, I, EM, CITE, VAR, TT, CODE, KBD, SAMP,
    IMG, SPAN { display: inline }

    LI { display: list-item }

    H1, H2, H3, H4 { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em }
    H5, H6 { margin-top: 1em }
    H1 { text-align: center }
    H1, H2, H4, H6 { font-weight: bold }
    H3, H5 { font-style: italic }

    H1 { font-size: xx-large }
    H2 { font-size: x-large }
    H3 { font-size: large }

    B, STRONG { font-weight: bolder }  /* relative to the parent */
    I, CITE, EM, VAR, ADDRESS, BLOCKQUOTE { font-style: italic }
    PRE, TT, CODE, KBD, SAMP { font-family: monospace }

    PRE { white-space: pre }

    ADDRESS { margin-left: 3em }
    BLOCKQUOTE { margin-left: 3em; margin-right: 3em }

    UL, DIR { list-style: disc }
    OL { list-style: decimal }
    MENU { margin: 0 }              /* tight formatting */
    LI { margin-left: 3em }

    DT { margin-bottom: 0 }
    DD { margin-top: 0; margin-left: 3em }

    HR { border-top: solid }        /* 'border-bottom' could also have been used */

    A:link { color: blue }          /* unvisited link */
    A:visited { color: red }        /* visited links */
    A:active { color: lime }        /* active links */

    /* setting the anchor border around IMG elements
       requires contextual selectors */

    A:link IMG { border: 2px solid blue }
    A:visited IMG { border: 2px solid red }
    A:active IMG { border: 2px solid lime }

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