[thelist] Link Stylesheets

[Patrick Berry]

>>> Joshua Olson had the thought that... <<<

> The browser sends out a separate request for the style sheet and downloads
> it into cache.  The browser then uses the information it contains to stylize
> all on-page elements.  It is not downloaded or referenced across the web for
> each element on the page.
> 
> Therefore, even if you have an appreciable number of tags on the page, you
> should not see lag above and beyond the normal time required to render a
> complex and lengthy page.
> 
> HTH,
> -joshua

In a perfect world, using a style sheet should save you file size on
the actual html documents since you would have less <font> tag clutter
8-)

Pat
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