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The definitive guide to Cascading Style Sheets updated for the CSS3 specification.

° Covers all of the new CSS3 properties and explains how individual CSS1, CSS2 and

CSS3 properties work

° Includes an expanded browser adoption section, detailing the many CSS “quirks” in

specific browsers that often plague developers

° Includes "CSS Quick Reference" that provides an easy reference to usable CSS

elements and attributes, as listed against compatible browsers

Description

  • Copyright 2004
  • Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/4"
  • Pages: 864
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Book
  • ISBN-10: 0-13-009278-9
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-13-009278-6

Core CSS: Cascading Style Sheets is the definitive guide to style sheets, which provide a new level of flexibility for Web developers. Cascading Styles Sheets provide both casual Web authors and professional Web developers with the tools necessary to precisely control such things as the size and appearance of fonts, positioning elements at exact locations on a pageeven how a page should be printed or "sound" when played through a compatible browser. This new edition of the book incorporates the latest browser-specific extensions to CSS, as well as the CSS3 specification, providing the most up-to-date information on CSS currently available. Core CSS delivers practical techniques for integrating CSS into Web site development and expert insight into choosing the best style sheet code. Like all Core series books it features hundreds of professional-level code examples.

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Table of Contents



Acknowledgments.


Preface.


Who You Are.


How This Book Is Organized.


Conventions Used in This Book.


Further Information.


Additional Material.


Feedback.


1. The Birth of CSS.

The World Wide Web Consortium Introduces Cascading Style Sheets. XHTML, CSS2 and CSS3. Re-emergence of the Browser Wars?



2. (X)HTML and Its Relationship to CSS.

Adding Cascading Style Sheets to Web Pages. The <style> Element. The <span> and <div> Elements. The <link> Element.



3. Browser Adoption of CSS.

Internet Explorer 3.x. Internet Explorer 4.x. Internet Explorer 4.5 (Macintosh) and 5.x (Windows and Macintosh). Internet Explorer 5.5. Internet Explorer 6.0. Opera 3.5. Opera 4.x 6.x. Netscape Navigator 4.x. Mozilla and Netscape Navigator 6.x and 7.x. Other Browsers.



4. Implementation of Basic CSS Concepts.

Grouping. Inheritance. class and id as Selectors. Contextual Selectors. Comments. CSS2 Selectors. CSS3 Selectors.



5. The Cascade.

Cascading Order. !important. Cascade-Order Sources.



6. CSS Units.

Length Units. Percentage Units. URLs. Strings. Time Units. Angle Units. Frequency Units.



7. Pseudo-Classes and Pseudo-Elements.

anchor Pseudo-Element. first-line Pseudo-Element. first-letter Pseudo-Element. lang Pseudo-Class. left, right and first Pseudo-Classes. focus and hover Pseudo-Classes. first-child Pseudo-Class. Pseudo-Elements in Selectors and Combining Multiple Pseudo-Elements.



8. Media Types and Media Queries.

Browser Compatibility. Media Queries. width and height Media Queries. device-width and device-height Media Queries. device-aspect-ratio Media Query. color Media Query. color-index Media Query. monochrome Media Query. resolution Media Query. scan Media Query. grid Media Query.



9. Font Properties.

font-family Property. font-size Property. font-style Property. font-variant Property. font-weight Property. font Property. font-stretch Property. font-size-adjust Property. The @font-face Pseudo-Element. CSS3 Font Decoration Properties.



10. Text Properties.

letter-spacing Property. word-spacing Property. line-height Property. vertical-align Property. text-align Property. text-decoration Property. text-indent Property. text-transform Property. text-shadow Property. glyph-orientation-horizontal and glyph-orientation-vertical Properties. text-script Property. min-font-size and max-font-size Properties. text-justify-trim Property. line-break Property. word-break-cjk Property. word-break-inside Property. word-break Property. wrap-option Property. linefeed-treatment Property. white-space-treatment Property. all-space-treatment Property. white-space Property. text-overflow-mode Property. text-overflow-ellipsis Property. text-overflow Property. kerning-mode Property. kerning-pair-threshold Property. punctuation-trim Property. text-line-through Set of Properties. text-overline Set of Properties. text-underline Set of Properties. text-blink Property.



11. Text Property Extensions.

Internet Explorer Text-Formatting CSS Ex

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