The book of CSS3 : a developer's guide to the future of web design / by Peter Gasston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasston, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Cascading style sheets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : No Starch Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

CSS3 is the latest revision of cascading style sheets, the language used to define the look and formatting of web documents. A still-evolving standard, CSS3 presents a moving target for developers who need to stay abreast of which features are supported by particular web browsers. The Book of CSS3 uses real-world examples to teach developers the fundamentals of the CSS3 specification, highlighting the latest developments and future features, while paying close attention to current browser implementations. Each chapter examines a different CSS3 module, and teaches the reader to use exciting new

Contents:

Foreword; Preface; Introduction; The Scope of This Book; A Quick Note About Browsers and Platforms; The Appendices and Further Resources; 1: Introducing CSS3; What CSS3 Is and How It Came to Be; A Brief History of CSS3; CSS3 Is Modular; Module Status and the Recommendation Process; CSS3 Is Not HTML5; Let's Get Started: Introducing the Syntax; Browser-Specific Prefixes; Future-Proofing Experimental CSS; Getting Started; 2: Media Queries; The Advantages of Media Queries; Syntax; Media Features; Width and Height; Device Width and Height; Using Media Queries in the Real World; Orientation

Aspect RatioPixel Ratio; Multiple Media Features; Mozilla-Specific Media Features; Summary; Media Queries: Browser Support; 3: Selectors; Attribute Selectors; New Attribute Selectors in CSS3; Beginning Substring Attribute Value Selector; Ending Substring Attribute Value Selector; Arbitrary Substring Attribute Value Selector; Multiple Attribute Selectors; The General Sibling Combinator; Summary; Selectors: Browser Support; 4: Pseudo-classes and Pseudo-elements; Structural Pseudo-classes; The nth-* Pseudo-classes; first-of-type, last-child, and last-of-type; only-child and only-of-type

Other Pseudo-classestarget; empty; root; not; UI Element States; Pseudo-elements; The selection pseudo-element; Summary; DOM and Attribute Selectors: Browser Support; 5: Web Fonts; The @font-face Rule; Defining Different Faces; True vs. Artificial Font Faces; A "Bulletproof" @font-face Syntax; Using Local Fonts; Font Formats; The Final "Bulletproof" Syntax; The Fontspring Bulletproof Syntax; Licensing Fonts for Web Use; A Real-World Web Fonts Example; More Font Properties; font-size-adjust; font-stretch; OpenType Features; Summary; Web Fonts: Browser Support

6: Text Effects and Typographic StylesUnderstanding Axes and Coordinates; Applying Dimensional Effects: text-shadow; Multiple Shadows; Letterpress Effect; Adding Definition to Text: text-outline and text-stroke; More Text Properties; Restricting Overflow; Resizing Elements; Aligning Text; Wrapping Text; Setting Text Rendering Options; Applying Punctuation Properties; Summary; Text Effects: Browser Support; 7: Multiple Columns; Column Layout Methods; Prescriptive Columns: column-count; Dynamic Columns: column-width; A Note on Readability; Different Distribution Methods in Firefox and WebKit

Combining column-count and column-widthColumn Gaps and Rules; Containing Elements within Columns; Elements Spanning Multiple Columns; Elements Breaking over Multiple Columns; Summary; Multiple Columns: Browser Support; 8: Background Images and Other Decorative Properties; Background Images; Multiple Background Images; Background Size; Background Clip and Origin; background-repeat; Background Image Clipping; Image Masks; Summary; Background Images: Browser Support; 9: Border and Box Effects; Giving Your Borders Rounded Corners; border-radius Shorthand

Differences in Implementation Across Browsers

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781593273637

1593273630

OCLC:

830164501