What does @import do?

Question

I saw this code some where, and I'm wondering what @import supposed to do? I don't think this is a server side thing. Is this processed by the browser??

<style type="text/css">
    @import "http://somedomain/dojo/dojo/resources/dojo.css";

    #lblTitle {
    font-size: 16px;
    color:#ffffff;
    font-weight:bold;
</style>

Answer 1

The '@import' rule allows users to import style rules from other style sheets. In CSS 2.1, any @import rules must precede all other rules (except the @charset rule, if present). See the section on parsing for when user agents must ignore @import rules. The '@import' keyword must be followed by the URI of the style sheet to include. A string is also allowed; it will be interpreted as if it had url(...) around it.

From Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification