CSS Detective Guide: The Tricks for Solving Tough CSS Mysteries

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Denise R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cascading style sheets--Design.

Cascading style sheets.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 277 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Cascading style sheets detective guide

Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries!

Tricks for solving tough cascading style sheets mysteries!

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] New Riders Publishing 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

One of the toughest challenges novice CSS developers face is when seemingly perfect code doesn’t translate into a perfectly rendered browser page—and with all the different browsers available today, this happens all too often. The CSS Detective Guide aims to help, by teaching real world troubleshooting skills. You’ll learn how to track clues, analyze the evidence, and get to the truth behind CSS mysteries. These aren’t pat solutions, but rather strategies for thinking about CSS. Author Denise Jacobs begins by going over the basics of CSS with a special emphasis on common causes of problems. Then she shows you methods for giving your code the third degree. Then you’ll take a look at the line-up of usual suspects, the common problems and persistent bugs that are often encountered in CSS. Finally, you’ll have the chance to play detective and find the guilty culprit in: The Case of the Devilish Details The Case of the Mistaken Identity The Case of the Single White Space The Case of the Float with a Mind of Its Own The Case of the Browser Who Hated Me The Case of the LOL Layout At the end, you’ll find that you can crack any case and solve any future mystery that you encounter, and your coding problems will become elementary. www.CssDetectiveGuide.com

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

PART 1 The Detective's Apprentice

Chapter 1 INVESTIGATING THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

HTML Document Structure

CSS Document Structure

CSS Foundations

Chapter 2 TOOLS OF THE TRADE

Advanced Selectors and Style Declarations

CSS Reset

Building a Solid Foundation

Intermediate CSS Troubleshooting Tips

Chapter 3 GIVING THE THIRD DEGREE

Validating Your Hunches

Bait-and-Switch Tactics: Doctype Sniffing and Switching

Zeroing In on the Problem

Resorting to Drastic Measures

The Shakedown: A Debugging Process

An Interrogator's Work Is Never Done

Chapter 4 THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Concepts to Remember

A Broken Box

HasLayout (hasIssues)

Flaky Floats

Misbehaving Lists

Margins and Errors

Disappearing Acts

Fonts Gone Wrong

Planning for the Future

A Positive ID

PART 2 The Game's Afoot

Chapter 5 THE CASE OF THE DEVILISH DETAILS

The Evidence Never Lies

Case Closed!

Chapter 6 THE CASE OF THE MISTAKEN IDENTITY

The Crime Scene

Follow the Evidence

Chapter 7 THE CASE OF THE SINGLE WHITE SPACE

Chapter 8 THE CASE OF THE FLOAT

Chapter 9 THE CASE OF THE BROWSER

Chapter 10 THE CASE OF THE LOL LAYOUT

APPENDIX

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612565373

9780321703415

0321703413

9781282565371

1282565370

9780321703408

0321703405

OCLC:

1027173710