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<ul>
<li><a href="/">NetSurf</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/hubbub/">Hubbub</a></li>
<li><strong>LibCSS</strong></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libdom/">LibDOM</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libparserutils/">LibParserUtils</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libwapcaplet/">LibWapcaplet</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libsvgtiny/">Libsvgtiny</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libnsfb/">LibNSFB</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libnsbmp/">Libnsbmp</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libnsgif/">Libnsgif</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/librosprite/">LibROSprite</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/iconv/">Iconv</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/rufl/">RUfl</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/ttf2f/">TTF2f</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/tinct/">Tinct</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/libpencil/">Libpencil</a></li>
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<h1>LibCSS</h1>

<h2>What is LibCSS?</h2>

<p>LibCSS is a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) parser and selection engine, written in C. It was developed as part of the <a href="/">NetSurf</a> project and is available for use by other software under the MIT licence. For further details, see the <a href="http://source.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libcss/README">readme</a>.</p>

<h2>Features</h2>

<ul>
<li>Parses CSS, good and bad</li>
<li>Simple C API</li>
<li>Low memory usage</li>
<li>Fast selection engine</li>
<li>Portable</li>
<li>Shared library</li>
</ul>

<p>Future:</p>

<ul>
<li>Available and packaged in major Linux distributions</li>
</ul>

<h2>Source code</h2>

<p>You can <a href="http://source.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libcss/">browse the source code</a> via the online interface. Alternatively, you can check it out of SVN:</p>

<p class="svncommand">$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/libcss</p>

<p>LibCSS�is�licensed�under�the�<a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT�Licence</a>.</p>

<h2>Releases</h2>

<p>Most recent first:</p>

<dl class="releases">
<dt>LibCSS 0.1.2</dt>
<dd><a href="http://download.netsurf-browser.org/libs/releases/libcss-0.1.2-src.tar.gz">Tarball</a> &ndash; <a href="#changes-0.1.2">Changes</a></dd>
<dt>LibCSS 0.1.1</dt>
<dd><a href="http://download.netsurf-browser.org/libs/releases/libcss-0.1.1-src.tar.gz">Tarball</a> &ndash; <a href="#changes-0.1.1">Changes</a></dd>
<dt>LibCSS 0.1.0</dt>
<dd><a href="http://download.netsurf-browser.org/libs/releases/libcss-0.1.0-src.tar.gz">Tarball</a> &ndash; <a href="#changes-0.1.0">Changes</a></dd>
<dt>LibCSS 0.0.2</dt>
<dd><a href="http://download.netsurf-browser.org/libs/releases/libcss-0.0.2-src.tar.gz">Tarball</a> &ndash; <a href="#changes-0.0.2">Changes</a></dd>
<dt>LibCSS 0.0.1</dt>
<dd><a href="http://download.netsurf-browser.org/libs/releases/libcss-0.0.1-src.tar.gz">Tarball</a> &ndash; First release</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Changes</h2>

<dl class="changes">
<dt id="changes-0.1.2">LibCSS 0.1.2</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Avoided interning standard strings for every stylesheet, style tag and style attribute.</li>
<li>Made significant optimisations to style selection.</li>
<li>Fixed case where font-family is unspecified in input CSS.</li>
<li>Added some support for @font-face.</li>
<li>Fixed !important on opacity property.</li>
<li>Added support for parsing CSS3 Multi-column layout properties.</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt id="changes-0.1.1">LibCSS 0.1.1</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Improved build tree cleaning.</li>
<li>Fixed build with GCC 4.6.</li>
<li>Added support for selection of page-break properties.</li>
<li>Optimised style selection.</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt id="changes-0.1.0">LibCSS 0.1.0</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Fixed destruction of bytecode for clip property.</li>
<li>Added scoping for use from C++ programs.</li>
<li>Removed need for library initialisation and finalisation.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS2 system colours.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS2 system fonts.</li>
<li>Altered external representation of colours to aarrggbb.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 rgba() colour specifier.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 'transparent' colour keyword.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 hsl() and hsla() colour specifiers.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 'currentColor' colour keyword.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 'opacity' property.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 selectors.</li>
<li>Added support for CSS3 namespaces.</li>
<li>Enabled clients to fetch imported stylesheets in parallel.</li>
<li>Made internal bytecode 64-bit safe.</li>
<li>Fixed leaking of strings.</li>
<li>Rewritten property parsers.</li>
<li>Certain property parsers auto-generated at build time.</li>
<li>Added clang build support.</li>
<li>Various portability enhancements.</li>
<li>Fixed selection for pseudo elements.</li>
<li>Added simultaneous selection for base and pseudo elements.</li>
<li>Namespaced all global symbols.</li>
<li>Updated test suite.</li>
<li>Future-proofed ABI.</li>
<li>Ensured fixed point maths saturates instead of overflowing.</li>
<li>Fixed clip property handling.</li>
<li>Fixed selection and cascade of &quot;uncommon&quot; CSS properties.</li>
<li>Added structure versioning for client input.</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt id="changes-0.0.2">LibCSS 0.0.2</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Allow stylesheets to be used in multiple contexts simultaneously.</li>
<li>Fix possible stylesheet reuse crash.</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt id="changes-0.0.1">LibCSS 0.0.1</dt>
<dd>First release.</dd>
</dl>

<h2>Contact</h2>

<p>If you would like to help develop LibCSS, or have questions about the library, please join the NetSurf <a href="http://www.netsurf-browser.org/lists/netsurf-dev">developer mailing list</a>.</p>

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