Beginning CSS : Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

York, Richard.

Series:

Wrox beginning guides.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cascading style sheets.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Local Subjects:

Cascading style sheets.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (676 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester : Wiley, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cascading style sheets (CSS) are the modern standard for website presentation. When combined with a structural markup language such as HTML, XHTML, or XML (though not limited to these), cascading style sheets provide Internet browsers with the information that enables them to present all the visual aspects of a web document. Cascading style sheets apply things such as borders, spacing between paragraphs, headings or images, control of font faces or font colors, background colors and images, textual effects such as underlined or strike-through text, layering, positioning, and a number of

Contents:

Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Second Edition; About the Author; Credits; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; What's New in the Second Edition; Whom Is This Book For?; What Does This Book Cover?; How This Book Is Structured; What Do You Need to Use This Book?; Conventions; Source Code; Errata; p2p.wrox.com; Part I: The Basics; Chapter 1: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets; Who Creates and Maintains CSS?; How the Internet Works; How CSS Came to Be; Browsers; Writing CSS; Your First CSS-Enabled Document; Advantages of Using CSS; Summary; Chapter 2: The Essentials

CSS RulesSelectors; Declarations; Grouping Selectors; CSS Comments; Values; Including CSS in a Document; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 3: Selectors; Class and ID Selectors; The Universal Selector; Descendant Selectors; Direct Child Selectors; Next Sibling Selector; Attribute Selectors; Pseudo-Elements :first-letter and :first-line; Pseudo-Classes; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 4: The Cascade and Inheritance; The Cascade; Inheritance; Summary; Exercises; Part II: Properties; Chapter 5: Text Manipulation; The letter-spacing Property; The word-spacing Property

Indenting Paragraph Text Using text-indentAligning Text with the text-align Property; The text-decoration Property; The text-transform Property; The white-space Property; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 6: Fonts; Specifying Fonts with the font-family Property; The font-style Property; The font-variant Property; The font-weight Property; The font-size Property; The font Shorthand Property; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 7: The Box Model; Overview; Margin; Borders; Padding; Setting Dimensions; Overflowing Content; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 8: CSS Buoyancy: Floating and Vertical Alignment

The float PropertyThe clear Property; Float Bugs in IE 6; The vertical-align Property; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 9: List Properties; The list-style-type Property; The list-style-image Property; The list-style-position Property; The list-style shorthand Property; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 10: Backgrounds; The background-color Property; The background-image Property; The background-repeat Property; The background-position Property; The background-attachment Property; The background shorthand Property; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 11: Positioning; Introduction to Positioning

The z-axis and the z-index PropertyOther Ways to Apply Positioning; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 12: Tables; Optional Table Elements; Table Captions and the caption-side Property; Table Columns; Controlling Table Width with the table-layout Property; Removing Cell Spacing with the border-collapse Property; The border-spacing Property; Summary; Exercises; Part III: Advanced CSS and Alternative Media; Chapter 13: Styling for Print; Applying Styles Based on Media; The @media Rule; Controlling Page Breaks; Summary; Exercises; Chapter 14: XML; Crash Course in XML; Creating an XML Schema

The display Property

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612365386

9781282365384

128236538X

9780470175071

0470175079

OCLC:

162005011