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			<style> ... </style> The style tag is used to create document-level style sheet rules. It is referred to as document-level because the style rules will apply to the entire HTML page. In contrast, the style core attribute behaves as an inline style rule and only effects a small portion the HTML document. The style tag must appear inside the head element. The code, contained between the opening and closing style tags, is not HTML, but is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). For more information about Style Sheets, please visit the CSS2 Quick Reference. The separate closing tag is mandatory. Attributes and Events dir lang title media The media attribute is a comma-separated list of one or more types of media in which the HTML document may appear (all, aural, braille, handheld, print, projection, screen, tv, and tty). The default is screen. type The mandatory type attribute is used to define the type of style being used. The most common value would be text/css. There is no default value. Here is a simple example of creating document-level style rules. A series of CSS properties defining font face, color, and size is assigned to the br, pre, and code tags. Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>DevGuru XHTML style Tag Example</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- q { font-face: arial; color: black; font-size: 18px } pre { font-face: arial; color: red; font-size: 24px } code { font-face: courier; color: blue; font-size: 36px } --> </style> </head> <body> <q>DevGuru is great!</q> <br /> <pre>D e v G u r u i s g r e a t !</pre> <br /> <code>DevGuru is great!</code> </body> </html> Output: Click to view results in separate window