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CSS : the missing manual / David Sawyer McFarland

By: Material type: TextSeries: Missing manualPublication details: Sebastopol, Calif, : O'Reilly Media, 2006Edition: 1. edDescription: xv, 476 s. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0-596-52687-3 (pbk.)
  • 978-0-596-52687-0 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 006.74 22
Contents:
Part 1. CSS basics. Rethinking HTML for CSS -- Creating styles and style sheets -- Selector basics: identifying what to style -- Saving time with inheritance -- Managing multiple styles: the cascade -- Part 2. Applied CSS. Formatting text -- Margins, padding, and borders -- Adding graphics to web pages -- Sprucing up your site's navigation -- Formatting tables and forms -- Part 3. CSS page layout. Building float-based layouts -- Positioning elements on a web page -- Part 4. Advanced CSS. CSS for the printed page -- Improving your CSS habits.
Summary: This book combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS, style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders. Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that do not require using old techniques like HTML tables and turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages, and style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows.
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"Designing beautiful web sites with CSS"--Cover.

Includes index

Part 1. CSS basics. Rethinking HTML for CSS -- Creating styles and style sheets -- Selector basics: identifying what to style -- Saving time with inheritance -- Managing multiple styles: the cascade -- Part 2. Applied CSS. Formatting text -- Margins, padding, and borders -- Adding graphics to web pages -- Sprucing up your site's navigation -- Formatting tables and forms -- Part 3. CSS page layout. Building float-based layouts -- Positioning elements on a web page -- Part 4. Advanced CSS. CSS for the printed page -- Improving your CSS habits.

This book combines crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, a dash of humor, and dozens of step-by-step tutorials to show you ways to design sites with CSS that work consistently across browsers. Create HTML that's simpler, uses less code, is search-engine friendly, and works well with CSS, style text by changing fonts, colors, font sizes, and adding borders. Create complex layouts using CSS, including multi-column designs that do not require using old techniques like HTML tables and turn simple HTML links into complex and attractive navigation bars-complete with CSS-only rollover effects that add interactivity to your Web pages, and style images to create effective photo galleries and special effects like CSS-based drop shadows.