CSS2 » Other » @charset
Version: Level 2
Compability: IE5+ N6+
- Syntax:
- @charset "charset";
The @charset at-rule allows you to designate a character set be used with an HTML document.
Note that the @charset at-rule can ONLY appear in an external style sheet file. It cannot appear inside a style element embedded inside an HTML document.
The W3C officially defines the character sets at:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets.
The syntax for an at-rule is an @ symbol, followed immediately by an unique identifier, which in turn is followed by the block which contains content that is applied on a document level. The block syntax is either:
- all content contained between a pair of curly brackets,
- or is all content contained between the unique identifier and a semi-colon.
The mandatory charset component is the name of the character set enclosed between a pair of double quotes.
Examples
Code:
@charset "ISO-8859-6"Explanation:
This example shows how the character set for Arabic is designsted.
Language(s): CSS2
See Also:
