Share this entry

Share this page

style sheet

Line breaks: style sheet

Definition of style sheet in English:

noun

1 (also style guide) A manual detailing the house style of a particular publisher, publication, etc.
Example sentences
  • A resolution was passed suggesting that the ship's newspaper be turned over entirely to scholarly articles printed according to the rules of the MLA stylesheet.
  • Even more wonderfully, his natural mode of expression was at odds with that paper's style guide.
  • I think the fact that I read the style guide sets me apart from everyone who actually writes for the Express.
2 Computing A type of template file consisting of font and layout settings to give a standardized look to certain documents.
Example sentences
  • If a user views an xls file using the XML style sheet, it's quite easy for an attacker to run or call executable code.
  • By placing these instructions in a style sheet, the document instance is freed from the burden of carrying format information.
  • And again, as always, we can apply a rough style sheet to this document, and slap a bit of mascara on that otherwise unimpressive wall of serifs.

Definition of style sheet in:

Share this entry

Share this page

 

What do you find interesting about this word or phrase?

Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.

Get more from Oxford Dictionaries

Subscribe to remove ads and access premium resources

Word of the day jaunt
Pronunciation: jônt
noun
a short excursion or journey for pleasure
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/style-sheet
www.oxforddictionaries.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-49
184171
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:Z4WL3IAVH4ZOJZIHAABNZZKEXE7IQR7L
<urn:uuid:05899e98-6cee-4d9d-a7ae-680adfb2440f>
2014-11-28T00:51:42Z
54.197.234.165
sha1:BSNFMZ7T4ST65Y6TO6WRZNPD73GBTO2X
<urn:uuid:2b7accf5-ebba-4934-a7c1-24b844267bab>
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/style-sheet
length
response
<urn:uuid:7c442938-d410-46a8-9fa0-aa5829d629f4>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-49
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for November 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf