Day 57 of 100DaysOfSpec, 4.2.5 The meta element, contd.

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Currently reading in 4.2.6 The style element. UA = user agent = browsers and other applications that process HTML documents.

For embedding CSS—well, styles in general, CSS implementation is not actually required by the spec—directly into a document (as opposed to linking to stylesheets or stuffing styles in an element’s style attribute).

Attributes on the style element:

• type: The default value is "text/css". An unknown value in type should be ignored by the UA as if it’s unsupported.
• media: tells what types of media the styles apply to. Screen, all, print, etc. Default is all.
• title: sets alternate style sheet sets. This attribute doesn’t inherit from ancestors.
• You shouldn’t set charset on style.

The style element’s descendants and subresources get processed before style itself. I suppose that’s something like an @import rule. Note: time spent fetching “critical subresources” blocks page load.