Abstract
On the surface, CSS seems easy. It has 45 commonly used properties you can employ to style a document. Below the surface, different combinations of properties and property values trigger completely different results. I call this CSS polymorphism because the same property has many meanings. The result of CSS polymorphism is a combinatorial explosion of possibilities.
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© 2011 Michael Bowers, Dionysios Synodinos, and Victor Sumner
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Bowers, M., Synodinos, D., Sumner, V. (2011). Design Patterns: Making CSS Easy!. In: Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3781-5_1
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