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Cascading Style Sheets 3 and HTML5 are all the buzz these days, and for good reason. Together, they represent what will become another major evolutionary step forward for the World Wide Web, helping developers to create increasingly compelling and attractive Web applications. In fact, CSS3 eventually will become the Web's next standard for stylizing presentational markup.
I've been digging into CSS3 in recent weeks, and I am pretty excited about what's possible. In this article, I highlight 10 new features that you'll undoubtedly see in use around the Web as browser developers continue racing to complete CSS3 support. Keep in mind that some of these features are still in a state of flux, and in several cases you'll see that some are browser-specific, as the property prefixes will indicate.
1. Attribute Selectors
CSS selectors make it easy to apply styles to specific HTML elements. CSS3 introduces several new selectors which make it even easier to target very specific elements according to an attribute value. The following example will apply a bold font styling to any element having a title which ends in highlight: