Synopses & Reviews
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.
Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a document's structure from its presentation. The benefits of this can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML and also saves time -- you can create or change the appearance of an entire document in just one place; and its compact file size makes web pages load quickly.
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. Author Eric Meyer tackles the subject with passion, exploring in detail each individual CSS property and how it interacts with other properties. You'll not only learn how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation, you also will benefit from the depth and breadth of his experience and his clear and honest style. This is the complete sourcebook on CSS.
The 3rd edition contains:
- Updates to reflect changes in the latest draft version of CSS 2.1
- Browser notes updated to reflect changes between IE6 and IE7
- Advanced selectors supported in IE7 and other major browsers included
- A new round of technical edits by a fresh set of editors
- Clarifications and corrected errata, including updated URLs ofreferenced online resources
Synopsis
Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the latest features of CSS 2.1, this practical handbook demonstrates the control and flexibility Cascading Style Sheets bring to Web design, covering selectors and structure, units, text manipulation, colors, backgrounds, borders, visual formatting, and positioning. Original. (Intermediate)
Synopsis
"CSS: The Definitive Guide," Third Edition has been updated to include a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1 and a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation. With new content on positioning, lists, generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and much more--the book explores in detail each individual CSS property and how it interacts with other properties, and shows how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation.
Synopsis
This text provides users with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.
Synopsis
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more.
Simply put, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to separate a document's structure from its presentation. The benefits of this can be quite profound: CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML and also saves time -- you can create or change the appearance of an entire document in just one place; and its compact file size makes web pages load quickly.
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and generated content, table layout, user interface, paged media, and more. Author Eric Meyer tackles the subject with passion, exploring in detail each individual CSS property and how it interacts with other properties. You'll not only learn how to avoid common mistakes in interpretation, you also will benefit from the depth and breadth of his experience and his clear and honest style. This is the complete sourcebook on CSS.
The 3rd edition contains: Updates to reflect changes in the latest draft version of CSS 2.1 Browser notes updated to reflect changes between IE6 and IE7 Advanced selectors supported in IE7 and other major browsers included A new round of technicaledits by a fresh set of editors Clarifications and corrected errata, including updated URLs of referenced online resources
About the Author
Eric A. Meyer has been working with the Web since late 1993 and is an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and web standards. A widely read author, he is also the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting (www.complexspiral.com), which counts among its clients America Online; Apple Computer, Inc.; Wells Fargo Bank; and Macromedia, which described Eric as "a critical partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a revolutionary tool for CSS-based design."Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the visual designer and campus web coordinator for the Case Western Reserve University web site, where he also authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was Project Coordinator for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, the first encyclopedia of urban history published fully and freely on the Web.Author of Eric Meyer on CSS and More Eric Meyer on CSS (New Riders), Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly), and CSS2.0 Programmer's Reference (Osborne/McGraw-Hill), as well as numerous articles for the O'Reilly Network, Web Techniques, and Web Review, Eric also created the CSS Browser Compatibility Charts and coordinated the authoring and creation of the W3C's official CSS Test Suite. He has lectured to a wide variety of organizations, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New York Public Library, Cornell University, and the University of Northern Iowa. Eric has also delivered addresses and technical presentations at numerous conferences, among them An Event Apart (which he cofounded), the IW3C2 WWW series, Web Design World, CMP, SXSW, the User Interface conference series, and The Other Dreamweaver Conference.In his personal time, Eric acts as List Chaperone of the highly active css-discuss mailing list (www.css-discuss.org), which he cofounded with John Allsopp of Western Civilisation and which is now supported by evolt.org. Eric lives in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you've been led to believe. For nine years, he was the host of "Your Father's Oldsmobile," a Big Band-era radio show heard weekly on WRUW 91.1 FM in Cleveland.You can find more detailed information on Eric's personal web page at http://www.meyerweb.com/eric.
Table of Contents
Dedication; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Property Conventions; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: CSS and Documents; 1.1 The Web's Fall from Grace; 1.2 CSS to the Rescue; 1.3 Elements; 1.4 Bringing CSS and XHTML Together; 1.5 Summary; Chapter 2: Selectors; 2.1 Basic Rules; 2.2 Grouping; 2.3 Class and ID Selectors; 2.4 Attribute Selectors; 2.5 Using Document Structure; 2.6 Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements; 2.7 Summary; Chapter 3: Structure and the Cascade; 3.1 Specificity; 3.2 Inheritance; 3.3 The Cascade; 3.4 Summary; Chapter 4: Values and Units; 4.1 Numbers; 4.2 Percentages; 4.3 Color; 4.4 Length Units; 4.5 URLs; 4.6 CSS2 Units; 4.7 Summary; Chapter 5: Fonts; 5.1 Font Families; 5.2 Font Weights; 5.3 Font Size; 5.4 Styles and Variants; 5.5 Stretching and Adjusting Fonts; 5.6 The font Property; 5.7 Font Matching; 5.8 Summary; Chapter 6: Text Properties; 6.1 Indentation and Horizontal Alignment; 6.2 Vertical Alignment; 6.3 Word Spacing and Letter Spacing; 6.4 Text Transformation; 6.5 Text Decoration; 6.6 Text Shadows; 6.7 Summary; Chapter 7: Basic Visual Formatting; 7.1 Basic Boxes; 7.2 Block-Level Elements; 7.3 Inline Elements; 7.4 Altering Element Display; 7.5 Summary; Chapter 8: Padding, Borders, and Margins; 8.1 Basic Element Boxes; 8.2 Margins; 8.3 Borders; 8.4 Padding; 8.5 Summary; Chapter 9: Colors and Backgrounds; 9.1 Colors; 9.2 Foreground Colors; 9.3 Backgrounds; 9.4 Summary; Chapter 10: Floating and Positioning; 10.1 Floating; 10.2 Positioning; 10.3 Summary; Chapter 11: Table Layout; 11.1 Table Formatting; 11.2 Table Cell Borders; 11.3 Table Sizing; 11.4 Summary; Chapter 12: Lists and Generated Content; 12.1 Lists; 12.2 Generated Content; 12.3 Summary; Chapter 13: User Interface Styles; 13.1 System Fonts and Colors; 13.2 Cursors; 13.3 Outlines; 13.4 Summary; Chapter 14: Non-Screen Media; 14.1 Designating Medium-Specific Style Sheets; 14.2 Paged Media; 14.3 Aural Styles; 14.4 Summary; Appendix A: Property Reference; A.1 Visual Media; A.2 Tables; A.3 Paged Media; A.4 Dropped from CSS2.1; A.5 Visual Styles; A.6 Paged Media; A.7 Aural Styles; Appendix B: Selector, Pseudo-Class, and Pseudo-Element Reference; B.1 Selectors; B.2 Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements; Appendix C: Sample HTML 4 Style Sheet; Colophon;