Why is the style tag restricted to the head?

• From: Joshua Prowse <prowsej@fastmail.fm>
• Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:04:09 -0400
• To: <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <001301c23edc$17af3200$8a897586@PIII>

What reason is there for restricting the style tag to the head of the document?
Why not allow it anywhere in the document so that <style> tags that are placed
lower override earlier ones?

Received on Thursday, 8 August 2002 09:04:05 UTC