Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets

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Title: Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets ISBN: 0130834564 Pub Date: May 2000 Pages: 676

Summary

For courses in HTML and Web Page Design.

This comprehensive guide to Cascading Style Sheets shows students how to use the CSS effectively in web page design. The example-rich text offers a practical look at the current status of CSS and provides in-depth coverage of how both the CSS1 and CSS2 standards work in current major browsers.

Preface

Welcome to Core CSS. Though Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have been around for a few years now, it is still underutilized on the Web. The original CSS specification was released by the World Wide Web Consortium back in December of 1996. Since then both Microsoft and Netscape have been slow to implement CSS fully in their respective browsers, and at the time of writing (November 1999) neither the current versions of Internet Explorer nor Netscape Navigator implement CSS fully. Despite this, there are real signs that there is a real drive to make CSS a critical part of Web design in the near future. Browser manufacturers like Opera have pushed for full CSS compatibility, and Netscape has made real efforts to incorporate CSS1 fully and parts of CSS2 into Mozilla, the "precursor" browser to the final release of what will one day become Netscape Navigator 5.0.

Web authors are beginning to realize that CSS provides the power they have been asking for in order to have greater control over how things appear and work on screen. Part of being able to use this power is to understand how it all works. That's where this book comes into the picture.

Who You Are

You are a Web author who is looking to expand the capabilities of your Web pages. You know that CSS opens the doors to a wide range of possibilities, but want to learn more about how to make the most of it. Or perhaps you know that CSS will solve some of your most pernicious Web formatting problems, but shy away from using it because you have heard that it can produce varying results when viewed under different browsers or under different operating systems. If you fit either of these circumstances, then this book is for you. 

Arguably one of the reasons why CSS has not been adopted as quickly as many other Web technologies have been is the lack of good, solid information as to how it should work. There is also a wide disparity between how CSS is supposed to work, and how it actually works in the major browsers. 

This book takes a practical, pragmatic look at the current state of affairs regarding CSS, and guides the reader through how CSS works. This book provides the information Web authors need in order to understand not only how CSS should work, but how it actually works in current major browsers. It does not confine itself only to one operating system, but takes a look at how CSS works under browsers working under multiple operating systems. With this knowledge, Web authors will know what CSS properties are "safe" for use, and which to avoid. 

More than that though, this book also provides information as to the future of CSS with an in-depth look at CSS2. CSS2 is a relatively recent specification that takes the original CSS specification further, bringing the Web to new display devices, providing much greater control over the positioning of onscreen elements, even providing Web authors with the control as to how Web pages should sound and much more. Browser support for CSS2 is limited at the moment, but it promises to come to the fore in the near future. This book provides the Web author with a guide as to what to expect when CSS2 is widely implemented.

You do not have to be an expert at understanding how the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) works, but the book does assume you have a basic understanding of both HTML and the Web. The book assumes no prior knowledge of CSS. It will not only serve those Web authors who are just starting out using CSS, but should stand in good stead as a handy reference for those occasions when you need to look up how a particular CSS property works.

Table of Contents

I. THE ORIGINS OF CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

1. The Beginning of HTML and the “Browser Wars.” 
2. HTML and its Relationship to CSS. 
3. Browser Adoption of CSS.

II. CSS1.

4. Overview. 
5. Implementation of Basic CSS Concepts. 
6. The Cascade. 
7. CSS Units. 
8. Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements. 
9. Font Properties. 
10. The Color and Background Family of Properties. 
11. The Text Family of Properties. 
12. The Box Family of Properties. 
13. The Classification Family of Properties. 

III. CSS2. 

14. Overview. 
15. Selectors, Pseudo-Elements, and Pseudo-Classes. 
16. New Media Types. 
17. The Box Family of Properties. 
18. Visual Formatting Family of Properties. 
19. Detailed Visual Formatting Family of Properties. 
20. Visual Effects Properties. 
21. General Content, Automatic Numbering and Lists. 
22. Paged Media Family of Properties. 
23. Font Family Properties. 
24. Text Family Properties. 
25. Table Family Properties. 
26. User Interface Properties. 
27. Aural Style Sheet Properties. 

APPENDICES. 

A. CSS1 Property, Pseudo-Element, Pseudo-Class, and Concepts Reference. 
B. CSS2 Property, Pseudo-Element and Pseudo-Class Reference. 
3. Colors, Units of Measure, Percentage Units and URLs. 
Index. 

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