CSS: The Definitive Guide

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Title: Cascading Style Sheets - The Definitive Guide ISBN: 1-56592-622-6 Pub Date: May 2000 Pages: 470

Description

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is poised to make its mark on the Web in the year 2000. With good implementations in Internet Explorer 5.0 and Opera 3.5, and 100% support expected in Netscape's "Mozilla" browser, signs are that CSS is rapidly becoming a useful, reliable, and powerful tool for Web authors.

CSS is the HTML 4.0-approved method for controlling visual presentation on Web pages. Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide offers a complete, detailed review of CSS1 properties and other aspects of CSS1. Each property is explored individually in detail with discussion of how each interacts with other properties. There is also information on how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation. This book is the first major title to cover CSS in a way that acknowledges and describes current browser support, instead of simply describing the way things work in theory. It offers both advanced and novice Web authors a comprehensive guide to implementation of CSS.

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide targets veteran Web authors who have already invested thousands of hours in learning HTML and writing Web pages and are wondering why they'd need to learn a brand new language of style. This book supplies those dubious but curious Web authors with the information they need to easily implement CSS to their Web site.

This book also addresses an audience of novice Web authors who are already straining to learn all of the tags and attributes of HTML and can benefit now from implementing CSS correctly instead of repeating the mistakes of the past.

The author has extensive experience writing about pitfalls and interesting tricks in CSS. He is a member of the CSS&FP Working Group, coordinates the W3C's CSS1 Test Suite, remains active on CSS newsgroups, and edits Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide (styles.webreview.com). He has built a widespread reputation as a CSS expert, particularly with regard to his understanding of the intricacies of browser support for CSS. He brings his knowledge and expertise to this book in the form of hints, workarounds, and many other tips for Web authors.

Table of Contents:

Preface

1. HTML and CSS
The Web's Fall from Grace 
CSS to the Rescue 
Limitations of CSS 
Bringing CSS and HTML Together 
Summary

2. Selectors and Structure 
Basic Rules 
Grouping 
Class and ID Selectors 
Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements 
Structure 
Inheritance 
Specificity 
The Cascade 
Classification of Elements 
Summary

3. Units and Values 
Colors 
Length Units 
Percentage Values 
URLs 
CSS2 Units 
Summary

4. Text Properties 
Manipulating Text 
Summary

5. Fonts 
Font Families 
Font Weights 
Font Size 
Styles and Variants 
Using Shorthand: The font Property 
Font Matching 
Summary

6. Colors and Backgrounds 
Colors 
Complex Backgrounds 
Summary

7. Boxes and Borders 
Basic Element Boxes 
Margins or Padding? 
Margins 
Borders 
Padding 
Floating and Clearing 
Lists 
Summary

8. Visual Formatting 
Basic Boxes 
Block-Level Elements 
Floated Elements 
Inline Elements 
Summary

9. Positioning 
General Concepts 
Relative Positioning 
Absolute Positioning 
Fixed Positioning 
Stacking Positioned Elements 
Summary

10. CSS2: A Look Ahead 
Changes from CSS1 
CSS2 Selectors 
Fonts and Text 
Generated Content 
Adapting to the Environment 
Borders 
Tables 
Media Types and @-rules 
Summary

11. CSS in Action 
Conversion Projects 
Tips & Tricks

Appendix A: CSS Resources 
Appendix B: HTML 2.0 Style Sheet 
Appendix C: CSS1 Properties 
Appendix D: CSS Support Chart 
Index 

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