so i should be using css1 right?

which css version to use . .

[desperado]

ie doesn't fully support css2 which means i should be using css 1 in my documents . .? I'de like to start using css2 but not if it isn't compliant with most ua's. maybe even 3 . . . i don't understand why ua's can't comform to 1 standard or at least issue updates that comply. i wonder what it would be like with 1 browser, i think it would be the exact same as it is now, i mean all browsers essentially do the same thing and that display coded documents, all these different browsers just have a different look. what i mean by it would be the same is, if we all used 1 browsers there would be people building mods for it making it look different and perform different . . well, who knows.

[WHeights]

If there ever is going to be one browser, it will most likely be controlled by Microsoft... which isn't really what most people would want. Microsoft try and control everything, and don't really give a crap about standards, or anything for that matter.

In answer to your question, use CSS1 and CSS2. CSS2 is compliant with most UA's. It may display things slightly different (which can be modified with minor hacks), but it works in the following browsers:

IE 4/5/5.5/6
Safari
Opera
Mozilla
Konquerer

and many more.

For things such as Netscape 4, you should only offer a logically structured text-only option of your website. I didn't mention Netscape in the above list, becomes it uses a gecko engine like Mozilla.

[photon]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, desperado!

As has been said so often, the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. ;)

[DrDoc]

CSS1 has almost everything you need, though... There are very few occasions when I've had to use some very specific CSS2 properties. And, on those occasions, I've never had any problems with IE or the other browsers.