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Why be Compatible?

The purists say you should always use Cascading Style Sheets, and should never mix these with older appearance tags like the <font> tags. The reality however is that older web browsers do not support Cascading style sheets. What can be done for these browsers?

If you are careful, you can mix the newer Cascading Stylesheets with older tags like <font>. However, this has to be done so that the CSS commands will have priority over the older tags.

The advantage of using both <font> tags, and CSS commands, is that you keep attractive pages for older browsers, but also have the flexibility of CSS stylesheets for changing site appearance in the future.

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