William Gill wrote:
> Ian Hobson wrote:
>
>> What? The title attribute provides text that appears as a tool tip
>
> Actually use of the title attribute designates a stylesheet as
> preferred.

You didn't make it clear you were referring to the stylesheet title. I
also read your original question as a more general inquiry about the
title attribute.

> I did
> read something about setting title to the same value in several link
> elements combines the sheets into one,

Yes, that's true.

> which might impact the cascade,
> but it's not obvious to me how or if it really does.

It does. All stylesheets with the same title are considered one, so
cascading does happen. IE doesn't support alternate stylesheets, of
course, but other browsers do.

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Berg