Limitations to using Cascading Style Sheet

Joshua Texeria
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Limitations to using Cascading Style Sheet

Despite the fact that Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) has brought about various positive changes to the art of web design, there are still a number of limitations experienced during its application. One of these limitations relates to the fact that there is inconsistency in how it is supported by various browsers. Different browsers present a CSS layout differently. This is largely due to browser bugs and an almost non-existent support for CSS features. Web browsers such as the Microsoft Internet Explorer IE 6.0 presented many CSS properties in a totally different way. It failed to make an appropriate interpretation of important CSS properties such as height and width. This in turn gave out an undesirable layout to the web page users.

Another disadvantage of using the CSS is that it lacks variables. Due to this it is impossible to directly change a constant in a web page. One has to make a “replace all” move to correct the color scheme, width or length of a document made using CSS. The Cascading Style Sheet also offers limited control of element shapes. At the moment CSS only offers rectangular shapes. Non semantic markup may be used for other shapes when using the CSS. Further, margin collapse is a common feature when using CSS. As much as it is useful, there are no particular ways of controlling its occurrence thus a great inconvenience to an author.

CSS only supports one background per element. This is not a desirable feature because designs with many graphical properties require several back ground images for every single element. A web designer is therefore left with the option to either leave out the visual effects or place wrappers around the document elements.

There are also vertical control limitations when utilizing Cascading Style Sheets. Various tasks such as positioning a footer to be placed on a higher viewpoint or placing an element vertically requires complex and unsupported style rules that the vertical limitations occasioned by CSS cannot support. Consequently a designer is prompted to use other languages which offer horizontal placement of elements.

Cascading Style Sheets also has a poor layout control for even flexible layouts. Due to this, it has remained as a styling language and not a layout language as one would desire. Again with the CSS, internal table elements lack margins. Some properties are not set out in a flexible manner thereby preventing the creation of new properties. This stifles creativity in web design. Consequently, designers who want more variety in their documents resort to other languages.

CSS does not directly provide for a property to force an element to have floats. Floats are generally diverse in accordance to a web browsers resolution and size, but a position is not able to change with these conditions.

Other limitations experienced when using the Cascading Style Sheet is that there is no particular declaration when it comes to columns. Layers that have multiple columns can be very complicated when one attempts to implement them. The current CSS column declaration is done by the use of floats which are then presented differently in different browsers and in different computer screen ratios.

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